Re: Lua 5.3 features in the horizon?
- From: Alex <initrd.gz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:44:12 -0400
LuaJIT already has bitwise operations. See http://bitop.luajit.org/ for
usage.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
<javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Hisham <h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In particular, I wonder if the new 64-bit integers and LuaJIT's 64-bit
> > FFI int types could be reconciled in a useful manner.
>
>
> i hope they'll come too. i think the utf8 module could be efficiently
> implemented in Lua, or at least in bytecode... the new integer
> subtype is a complex issue, since in Lua it adds some automatic
> transformations, which are bad for JITting in general, and especially
> for FFI.
>
> of these features, for me the biggest one is the bitwise operators.
> i'd really like to use them in LuaJIT...
>
> --
> Javier
>
>
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Sincerely,
Alex Parrill
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