18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
8:52 a.m.
I've only played around a bit with LuaJIT
(can't use it at work since we
use SPARC, and LuaJIT doesn't support that architecture, but we do use Lua
at work) and from what I've seen, it is *very* impressive. Lua itself it
one of the fastest interpreted langauges going and LuaJIT brings it to C
speed (or close enough).
I do like Lua. I was introduced to it on, of all things, PalmOS -- Plua was
one of the best ways to quickly build Palm apps, and it could be "cross
compiled" (I maintained the OS X port of the Plua cross-builder).
I wish more JITs supported POWER/PowerPC, though.
I use C and Lua for my main GOTO langauges these
days (both for personal
and work related projects). It's a nice little language.
Most of my Unix work is in Perl nowadays, and most of my personal projects
are also written in it.
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