3 ms·
> There is nothing to add to it. I'm not sure that's true. Maybe LuaJIT was never going to add the features it's missing from Lua 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. However, wh
by pansa2 6y ago
> There is nothing to add to it.
I'm not sure that's true. Maybe LuaJIT was never going to add the features it's missing from Lua 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. However, when Mike Pall stepped back in 2015 [0], he had still been planning to further improve the implementation - for example with a new garbage collector [1] and "hyperblock scheduling" [2] (which remain unimplemented), plus 64-bit pointer support (which was eventually completed by other people).
[0] https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT-maintainers https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT...
[1] http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
[2] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/37 https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/37
- ksec 6y agoI think he dislike the direction Lua was moving and he doesn't intend to implement any of those newer Lua features. So he stopped working on it. I am wondering what is Mike Pall working on now.