Re: big planz around Lua [1/2]

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, szbnwer@gmail.com <szbnwer@gmail.com> wrote:
> - LuaJIT: we need to do that raw math and its good but its not neccessary
> til we can reach every hw and our math can give us more math wich is
> immediately 4 the computerz, but it shud b parallel wid human versoinz, or
> its enough to build them a colorful flowsheet or whatever, and then we wont
> need to compile and download sources, if the stuff is reversible or therez
> an algorythm that max ppl understand evil codes

Well, don't underestimate the contribution that the FFI makes to
LuaJIT's usefulness, it's not all about fast math. Being able to
rapidly connect to arbitrary C code in a (relatively) comfortable way
without sacrificing speed can be a pretty big paradigm shift, once you
get used to it.

-Duncan