Re: luaJIT vs. lua-llvm

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

cynthia powers <powcyn@gmail.com> writes:
> Can anyone point me to some good documentation on:
> 1. LuaJIT : intrinsics of luajit, advantages of using luaJIT, disadvantages
> etc..
> 2, llvm-lua: intrinsics, advantages/disadvantages.
> What factors to look for while choosing one over the other.. etc.

Also consider straight Lua -- it's not always the case that LuaJIT is
significantly faster, it depends very much on what you're doing, and
there are drawbacks to using LuaJIT (e.g. normal Lua doesn't have the
memory limitations LuaJIT does).

When in doubt, benchmark...

-miles

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