Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals

[Sir Pogsalot <sir.pogsalot@...>]

I'm going to apologize for top-posting by again top-posting -- because Gmail's web interface makes this happen and it saddens me :(  ((sorry))

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com> wrote:

On 24 Nov 2013 16:22, "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
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> steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
> > As for LuaJIT, the big divergence is needing to use ffi to get the
> > best performance. The 5.1/5.2 compatible lua-ffi is coming on nicely,
> > but won't give the speed up of course.
>
> lua-ffi also has the same portability issues as luajit...

Its much easier to port to a new platform, you only need to define the function call ABI not a whole implementation.

Justin

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