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LuaJIT is JIT compiler for the Lua language.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2013-11-29 · latest 2022-02-11

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  1. …to be super-straightforward or target architecture independent from looking at the comments in < https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit/blob/master/src/lj_opt_nar... >. LuaJIT furthermore uses NaN tagging (as do some JS engines, although not…
  2. …other notable C codebases: Redis, LuaJIT, FreeBSD, Memcached --> https://github.com/antirez/redis https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd https://github.com/memcached/memcached
    comment by eindiran · 2020-02-14 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)
  3. Both Lua and LuaJit. https://github.com/LuaDist/lua https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit
    comment by devbug · 2015-07-17 · in Ask HN: Good C codebases to read?
  4. …though. If anyone's interested in digging through the header for the exact format, it's here: https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit/blob/master/src/lj_obj.h
    comment by david-given · 2014-12-05 · in Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine
  5. …- "luajit/src/lj_opt...") are incredibly interesting reading. One of my favourite quotes is at https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit/blob/master/src/lj_opt_nar... ** [A recursive backpropagation algorithm with backtracking, employing **…
    comment by ajtulloch · 2013-11-29 · in How does LuaJIT's trace compiler work?