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On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:30 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:06:24AM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> > This suggests that if games companies are discarding Lua for being too
> > slow at function calls, they should consider LuaJIT seriously. LuaJIT is
> > only really available on x86 platforms, but since the vast majority of
> > games are intended for those kinds of platforms, I think it's fair to
> > say it could make a serious difference.
> I think you're forgetting gaming consoles.  No current-generation consoles
> are x86.

True, I was labouring under the impression that x86 was popular in
gaming consoles also.

However all it'd take is for one of the companies to make and offer a
PowerPC LuaJIT backend and it'd be back to worthwhile again.

D.

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