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Part of the reason is also that Mike Pall is actually a hyper-advanced cyborg from the future. In case you're not sure what I'm talking about, read through the

Part of the reason is also that Mike Pall is actually a hyper-advanced cyborg from the future. In case you're not sure what I'm talking about, read through the LuaJIT source code at some point. It's a thing of beauty - he's handcrafted assembly to make everything run as fast as possible, on all of x86, x64, PowerPC and now ARM.

olov 15y ago
Yes. "LuaJIT 2.0 intellectual property disclosure and research opportunities" <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908&#62 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908&#...; is further proof to that. Rumor has it that Mike Pall is actually a collective pseudonym used by an army of cycle counting language expert cyborgs (from the future).
nickik 15y ago
Mike Pall is awesome but Mozilla has a hord of very talented compiler guys. They have to fight against legacy code and a badly designed language. I have learned alot about LuaJit already and I will digg into it more in the future.