On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Coda Highland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Eric Wing <[email protected]> wrote: >>> But perhaps there >>> are some obvious downsides to this approach that I also am missing. >> >> Here are a few more potential downsides not mentioned so far. >> >> One is that iOS and Windows Store policies disallow JIT. While you can >> disable this part in LuaJIT, most of the performance advantages >> disappear when you do this. > > However, even with the JIT disabled, LuaJIT does tend to outperform > Lua for a lot of use cases (Lua wins in a few cases) just by virtue of > having an interpreter written in hand-tuned assembly. > > /s/ Adam
Addendum: FFI still works on iOS at least, and probably WinRT. /s/ Adam _______________________________________________ CGit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/cgit
