Re: More Lua number types
- From: "Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 01:13:56 -0700
On Wednesday 01, Szabó Antal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How hard would it be to add multiple number types (float, double,
> (u)int(8|16|32|64)) to luajit as native lua types?
> I tried using ffi integer types, but the generated code is much worse
> than with the number type, I guess because of allocations the ffi
> needs.
Can you show example code that is worse because of allocations? Also have you
tried with the latest luajit 2 with allocation sinking?
I don't think there is any need to add more native types to luajit.
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Robert G. Jakabosky
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