Re: To which extent LuaJIT is specific to Lua
- From: Ryan <rymg19@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,Leo Romanoff <romixlev@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:48:38 -0600
RPython is actually a restricted Python implementation that will generate JITs
for your languages. You write the interpreter; RPython writes the JIT. PyPy was
just implemented using RPython. Therefore, PyPy's generated code might be much
more bloated than a simpler language implementation.
Leo Romanoff <romixlev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Ryan <rymg19@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 21:19 Freitag, 29.November 2013:
>> In reference to your last question: ever heard of PyPy/RPython?
>
>Yes. Sure. I've read quite some articles about it, but haven't tried it
>yet.
>And judging purely based on what I've read so far, it seems to be a
>more heavy weight solution than LuaJIT in terms of required runtime
>support, overhead and embedding possibilities. Also the quality of
>generated code seems to be good, but not as good as produced by LuaJIT.
>But at the same time it seems to be way more modular and designed with
>extensibility and support for other languages in mind.
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