Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but what's the upside of that? :)

I mean, is the parrot vm significantly faster or easier to deploy than 
luas, or is it supposed to be a bridge between languages or some such?
From what I can tell, lua will run wherever parrot does, so if it's not 
a major performance increase etc, etc, what's the upside?

François Perrad wrote:
> Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running 
> dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see 
> http://www.parrotcode.org/).
> Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.6.0.
>
> A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 (aligned on 5.1.3) is available :
>  - an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate 
> Representation) that generates PIR
>  - a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR)
>  - a test suite (more than 980 tests)
>
> For the first time, with Parrot 0.6.0, all garbage collection problems 
> seem to be fixed.
>
> Documentation starts in 
> http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup 
> and 
> http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup. 
>
>
> Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome 
> on Parrot mailing list (perl6-internals@perl.org).
>
> François Perrad.