On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> Hi,
> there is a new project on supelec: Luajittex.
>
> Briefly, it's like luatex with Lua replaced by LuaJIT.
> See
> http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luajittex/
> for the source code.
>
> Please note that LuaJIT is based on lua 5.1, while luatex is now
> based on lua 5.2 --- this means that binaries modules must be kept separate.
> The tag 0.72.0 means that luajittex is in sinc with the tag 0.72.0 of luatex;
> I'm working to keep in sinc with the last tag.
> I've compiled the source for Linux 64bit (Ubuntu 12.10)  Linux 32bit
> (Opensuse 12.1) and crosscompiled for Mingw32bit and they seem to work
> but of course any feedback is appreciate.
>
>
>
> The new engine is available with context (mkiv) with
> --engine=luajittex

I only wanted to say that luajittex is now available in the
distribution for most of the platforms.

(It's missing on Solaris. The build for 32-bit Mac OS X fails on the
builder's machine and on 64-bit it crashes with "Can't create the Lua
state.", but you are welcome to test everywhere else.)

Mojca
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