Re: Funding LuaJIT 2.1 and beyond
- From: Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:09:48 +0200
On 7 Jun 2012, at 23:33, Mike Pall wrote:
> This is a follow-up to the call for sponsors in the LuaJIT Roadmap
> 2012/2013:
>
> Any and all ideas for the continued funding of LuaJIT, and in
> particular the initial funding for the work on LuaJIT 2.1, are
> welcome!
>
> Corporate sponsor pools, options for crowd funding, whatever ...
> please discuss your ideas here (and not in a reply to the roadmap
> posting). Thank you!
>
> --Mike
>
I'm not sure your user base is big enough for crowd funding yet (though it's
definitely getting there).
If the technical challenges behind the NYI functions are not too great, users
could donate towards specific functions, very similar to what the NaturalDocs
guy did for languages getting full support.
For example string concatenation and pairs are real killers for some specific
use cases. It's not so much that they can't bet JITed efficiently, it's the
fact that the trace abort prevents portions (sometimes large) of the code from
being compiled. If they're critical for a particular project, then companies
could be convinced to donate.
Make the interface for doing so sufficiently simple, with payment macs for
PayPal and Visa and you'd probably do well.
-Arran
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