Re: luajit and iOS

  • From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 19:06:12 -0700

A product that requires a jailbroken device is not viable.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:58 PM, 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!
>



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