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  63. LuaJIT is a <b>Just-In-Time Compiler</b> for the Lua<sup>*</sup>
  64. programming language.
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  67. LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2012 Mike Pall.
  68. LuaJIT is open source software, released under the
  69. <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;MIT license</a>.
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  71. <p class="indent" style="color: #606060;">
  72. * Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language
  73. designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
  74. general-purpose, stand-alone language. More information about
  75. Lua can be found at: <a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;http://www.lua.org/</a>
  76. </p>
  77. <h2>Compatibility</h2>
  78. <p>
  79. LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1.
  80. The virtual machine (VM) is <b>API- and ABI-compatible</b> to the
  81. standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
  82. </p>
  83. <p>
  84. LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It
  85. currently runs on all popular operating systems based on
  86. <b>x86</b> or <b>x64</b> CPUs (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.) or embedded
  87. systems based on <b>ARM</b> (Android, iOS), <b>PPC</b> or <b>MIPS</b> CPUs.
  88. Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand
  89. and sponsoring.
  90. </p>
  91. <h2>Overview</h2>
  92. <p>
  93. LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in
  94. games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many
  95. other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high
  96. performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than
  97. <b>125K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>85K</b> for the JIT compiler (on x86).
  98. </p>
  99. <p>
  100. LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely
  101. considered to be <b>one of the fastest dynamic language
  102. implementations</b>. It has outperformed other dynamic languages on many
  103. cross-language benchmarks since its first release &mdash; often by a
  104. substantial margin. In 2009 other dynamic language VMs started to catch up
  105. with the performance of LuaJIT 1.x. Well, I couldn't let that slide. ;-)
  106. </p>
  107. <p>
  108. 2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited <b>LuaJIT 2.0</b>.
  109. The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up and relentlessly
  110. optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed interpreter,
  111. written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
  112. </p>
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  114. An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced,
  115. SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This
  116. allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic
  117. language features.
  118. </p>
  119. <p>
  120. It's destined to break into the <a href="http://luajit.org/performance.html"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;performance</a>
  121. range traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
  122. </p>
  123. <h2>More ...</h2>
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  126. about LuaJIT.
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  130. the LuaJIT project page on the web. All other links to online
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