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  18. <h1>LuaJIT</h1>
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  43. LuaJIT is a <b>Just-In-Time Compiler</b> for the Lua<sup>*</sup>
  44. programming language.
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  47. LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2008 Mike Pall.
  48. LuaJIT is open source software, released under the
  49. <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;MIT/X license</a>.
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  51. <p class="indent" style="color: #606060;">
  52. * Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language
  53. designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
  54. general-purpose, stand-alone language. More information about
  55. Lua can be found at: <a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;http://www.lua.org/</a>
  56. </p>
  57. <h2>Compatibility</h2>
  58. <p>
  59. LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1.
  60. The virtual machine (VM) is <b>API- and ABI-compatible</b> to the
  61. standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
  62. </p>
  63. <p>
  64. LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It
  65. currently runs on all popular operating systems based on <b>x86 CPUs</b>
  66. (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). A port to x64 CPUs is currently ongoing &mdash;
  67. you can follow its progress in the <a href="http://luajit.org/download.html"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;git repository</a>.
  68. Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand
  69. and sponsoring.
  70. </p>
  71. <h2>Overview</h2>
  72. <p>
  73. LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in
  74. games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many
  75. other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high
  76. performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than
  77. <b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler.
  78. </p>
  79. <p>
  80. LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely
  81. considered to be <b>one of the fastest dynamic language
  82. implementations</b>. It has outperfomed other dynamic languages on many
  83. cross-language benchmarks since its first release &mdash; often by a
  84. substantial margin. Only now, in 2009, other dynamic language VMs are
  85. starting to catch up with the performance of LuaJIT 1.x &hellip;
  86. </p>
  87. <p>
  88. 2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited <b>LuaJIT 2.0</b>.
  89. The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up and relentlessly
  90. optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed interpreter,
  91. written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
  92. </p>
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  94. An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced,
  95. SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This
  96. allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic
  97. language features. It's destined to break into the performance range
  98. traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
  99. </p>
  100. <h2>More ...</h2>
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  102. Click on the LuaJIT sub-topics in the navigation bar to learn more
  103. about LuaJIT.
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  106. Click on the Logo in the upper left corner to visit
  107. the LuaJIT project page on the web. All other links to online
  108. resources are marked with a '<span class="ext">&raquo;</span>'.
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