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It seems we're basically in agreement then. I do want to point out that the weight of the Lua 5.4 standalone binary on my machine is 70KiB. Yes, you read that
by samatman 2y ago
It seems we're basically in agreement then. I do want to point out that the weight of the Lua 5.4 standalone binary on my machine is 70KiB.
Yes, you read that correctly. Lua is truly amazing in terms of the amount of power you get for how little there really is. One of the reasons it's faster than most other VMs with no JIT functionality is because the entire VM fits in a typical L1 cache. My laptop's L1 is 192KiB, meaning it could fit 122KiB of program state in with the VM without breaking a sweat.