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> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Tomas Guisasola Gorham
> <tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >        I think yes.  Usually we apply the term "pure Lua" to applications
> > that do not require external C libraries.  Or am I wrong?
> 
> This is 'pure' Lua numerical code, if your implementation is LuaJIT -
> because ffi is a built-in module.
> 
> So it isn't so easy to draw the line ...

Sorry, but it is *trivial* to draw the line here. 'ffi' is a built-in
module in LuaJIT, not in Lua. As Tomas said, that is "pure LuaJIT", not
"pure Lua".  Please do not hijack the name.

-- Roberto