On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Eric Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> 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 _______________________________________________ CGit mailing list CGit@lists.zx2c4.com http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/cgit