Re: luajit and iOS
- From: malkia <malkia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 19:04:26 -0700
On Sep 4, 2012 6:58 PM, "Fjölnir Ásgeirsson" <fjolnir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It is possible on a jailbroken device (in fact, when I had gdb connected
to my app running on a non-jailbroken device, it worked; but of course when
the device was not connected, it crashed). So no, this is not a hardware
limitation at all.
>
> But the interpreter is plenty fast; even on a phone. We just released a
game project on the app store using it and never had to even think about
optimization.
>
> – Fjölnir
>
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 09:58 , Tom Yaxley <tommitytom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I posted this on the lua mailing list and it was recommended that I
> > post here instead:
> >
> > I'm aware that luajit can only be interpreted on iOS, but I was
> > curious if this is a physical limitation of iDevices, or just a
> > software limitation? For instance, could the jit compiler be used on
> > a jailbroken iDevice? Secondly, is it possible o compile the jit code
> > somehow so it can be loaded on an iDevice? Since then it wouldn't
> > have to do any generation at runtime (or maybe it would, I'm not sure
> > of the exact internals of luajit :) Cheers!
> >
>
>
Then again FFI issomewhat slower in interpretter mode than the normal lua
binding, but nonetheless much more simpler.
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