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A paper on the Implementation of Lua 5.0

On OSNews, there is a link to a paper describing the implementation of Lua5.0 which among several changes switched from a stack-based VM to a register based and got a significant improvement in performances.

By renox at 2005-02-28 12:48 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 8037 reads

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One of the authors of the paper, Roberto Ierusalimschy, gave a talk on the same subject at Lightweight Languages 2003. Slides here.

By Alexandre Richer at Mon, 2005-02-28 18:00 | login or register to post comments