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Hello!

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Andrew Starks wrote:
> The advantages brought by the JIT are easy to understand. I'm
> wondering what enhancements FFI brings to the project? That is: Does
> FFI make the project faster, more stable, more capable?
>

FFI makes the implementation much cleaner (and even beautiful) and
also makes both the implementation itself and the user code calling it
much much faster when being truly JIT compiled by LuaJIT.

Best regards,
-agentzh