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Mike Pall 2010-02-17 00:47:55 +01:00
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<div class="major" style="background: #d0d0d0;">
<h2 id="snap">Development Snapshot</h2>
<ul>
<li>Build of preliminary x64 interpreter works on Linux/x64 or WIN64.</li>
<li>Implement call/return hooks (zero-cost if disabled).</li>
<li>Major redesign of internal function call handling.</li>
<li>Implement yield from C hooks.</li>
<li>Add abstract C call handling to IR.</li>
<li>Improve KNUM fuse vs. load heuristics.</li>
<li>Drive the GC forward on string allocations in the parser.</li>
<li>Compile various <tt>io.*()</tt> functions.</li>
<li>Compile <tt>math.sinh()</tt>, <tt>math.cosh()</tt>, <tt>math.tanh()</tt>
and <tt>math.random()</tt>.</li>
<li>CPU support:
<ul>
<li>Port integrated memory allocator to Linux/x64 and Windows/x64.</li>
<li>Port the interpreter to x64.</li>
<li>Port DynASM to x64.</li>
<li>Many 32/64 bit cleanups in the VM.</li>
<li>Allow building the interpreter with either x87 or SSE2 arithmetics.</li>
<li>Disable JIT compiler on older non-SSE2 CPUs instead of aborting.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix constructor bytecode generation for certain conditional values.</li>
<li>Fix some cases of ordered string comparisons.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>lua_tocfunction()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix cutoff register in JMP bytecode for some conditional expressions.</li>
<li>Fix PHI marking algorithm for references from variant slots.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>package.cpath</tt> for non-default PREFIX.</li>
<li>Fix DWARF2 frame unwind information for interpreter on OSX.</li>
<li>Drive the GC forward on string allocations in the parser.</li>
<li>Implement call/return hooks (zero-cost if disabled).</li>
<li>Implement yield from C hooks.</li>
<li>Add external unwinding and C++ exception interop (default on x64).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Split CALL/FUNC recording and clean up fast function call semantics.</li>
<li>Major redesign of internal function call handling.</li>
<li>Improve FOR loop const specialization and integerness checks.</li>
<li>Switch to pre-initialized stacks. Avoid frame-clearing.</li>
<li>Colocation of prototypes and related data: bytecode, constants, debug info.</li>
<li>Cleanup parser and streamline bytecode generation.</li>
<li>Add support for weak IR references to register allocator.</li>
<li>Switch to compressed, extensible snapshots.</li>
<li>Compile returns to frames below the start frame.</li>
<li>Improve alias analysis of upvalues using a disambiguation hash value.</li>
<li>Compile floor/ceil/trunc to SSE2 helper calls or SSE4.1 instructions.</li>
<li>Add generic C call handling to IR and backend.</li>
<li>Improve KNUM fuse vs. load heuristics.</li>
<li>Compile various <tt>io.*()</tt> functions.</li>
<li>Compile <tt>math.sinh()</tt>, <tt>math.cosh()</tt>, <tt>math.tanh()</tt>
and <tt>math.random()</tt>.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</div>

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programming language.
</p>
<p>
LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2008 Mike Pall.
LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2010 Mike Pall.
LuaJIT is open source software, released under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;MIT/X license</a>.
</p>
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considered to be <b>one of the fastest dynamic language
implementations</b>. It has outperfomed other dynamic languages on many
cross-language benchmarks since its first release &mdash; often by a
substantial margin. Only now, in 2009, other dynamic language VMs are
starting to catch up with the performance of LuaJIT 1.x &hellip;
substantial margin. In 2009 other dynamic language VMs started to catch up
with the performance of LuaJIT 1.x. Well, I couldn't let that slide. ;-)
</p>
<p>
2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited <b>LuaJIT 2.0</b>.

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use the given contact address.
</li>
<li>
There are some planned <b>structural improvements</b> to the compiler,
like compressed snapshot maps or generic handling of calls to helper
methods. These are of lesser importance, unless other developments
elevate their priority.
</li>
<li>
<b>Documentation</b> about the <b>internals</b> of LuaJIT is still sorely
missing. Although the source code is included and is IMHO well
commented, many basic design decisions are in need of an explanation.