Re: 64-bit ARM and iOS

  • From: Dmitry Ivanov <jimon.j1m0n@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:25:10 +0200

jit is not allowed, but why not ffi ? (if you fix ffi to work around
dynamic function lookup)

2014-10-21 9:21 GMT+02:00 Elias Hogstvedt <eliashogstvedt@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I thought jit and or ffi wasn't allowed to use iOS. Is this still true?
>
> "Note: *the JIT compiler is disabled for iOS*, because regular iOS Apps
> are not allowed to generate code at runtime. You'll only get the
> performance of the LuaJIT interpreter on iOS. This is still faster than
> plain Lua, but much slower than the JIT compiler. Please complain to Apple,
> not me. Or use Android. :-p"
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Alex Szpakowski <aszpakowski@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Starting in February new iOS apps uploaded to the Apple App Store will
>> require 64-bit binaries.[1]
>>
>> Now would be a good time to get the ball rolling on a 64-bit ARM port of
>> LuaJIT – via sponsorship or whatever else may be necessary. :)
>>
>> [1]: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=10202014a
>>
>
>

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