RELEASE LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1v2.0.0-beta1

author: Mike Pall <mike> 2009-12-08 19:46:35 +0100
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>LuaJIT</title>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+<meta name="Author" content="Mike Pall">
+<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright (C) 2005-2009, Mike Pall">
+<meta name="Language" content="en">
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bluequad.css" media="screen">
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bluequad-print.css" media="print">
+</head>
+<body>
+<div id="site">
+<a href="http://luajit.org"><span>Lua<span id="logo">JIT</span></span></a>
+</div>
+<div id="head">
+<h1>LuaJIT</h1>
+</div>
+<div id="nav">
+<ul><li>
+<a class="current" href="luajit.html">LuaJIT</a>
+<ul><li>
+<a href="install.html">Installation</a>
+</li><li>
+<a href="running.html">Running</a>
+</li><li>
+<a href="api.html">API Extensions</a>
+</li></ul>
+</li><li>
+<a href="status.html">Status</a>
+<ul><li>
+<a href="changes.html">Changes</a>
+</li></ul>
+</li><li>
+<a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>
+</li><li>
+<a href="http://luajit.org/download.html">Download <span class="ext">&raquo;</span></a>
+</li></ul>
+</div>
+<div id="main">
+<p>
+LuaJIT is a <b>Just-In-Time Compiler</b> for the Lua<sup>*</sup>
+programming language.
+</p>
+<p>
+LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2008 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>
+<p class="indent" style="color: #606060;">
+* Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language
+designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
+general-purpose, stand-alone language. More information about
+Lua can be found at: <a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;http://www.lua.org/</a>
+</p>
+<h2>Compatibility</h2>
+<p>
+LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1.
+The virtual machine (VM) is <b>API- and ABI-compatible</b> to the
+standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
+</p>
+<p>
+LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It
+currently runs on all popular operating systems based on <b>x86 CPUs</b>
+(Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). It will be ported to x64 CPUs and other
+platforms in the future, based on user demand and sponsoring.
+</p>
+<h2>Overview</h2>
+<p>
+LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in
+games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many
+other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high
+performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than
+<b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler.
+</p>
+<p>
+LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely
+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;
+</p>
+<p>
+2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited <b>LuaJIT 2.0</b>.
+The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up and relentlessly
+optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed interpreter,
+written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
+</p>
+<p>
+An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced,
+SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This
+allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic
+language features. It's destined to break into the performance range
+traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
+</p>
+<h2>More ...</h2>
+<p>
+Click on the LuaJIT sub-topics in the navigation bar to learn more
+about LuaJIT.
+</p>
+<p><p>
+Click on the Logo in the upper left corner to visit
+the LuaJIT project page on the web. All other links to online
+resources are marked with a '<span class="ext">&raquo;</span>'.
+</p>
+<br class="flush">
+</div>
+<div id="foot">
+<hr class="hide">
+Copyright &copy; 2005-2009 Mike Pall
+<span class="noprint">
+&middot;
+<a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
+</span>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
author	Mike Pall <mike>	2009-12-08 19:46:35 +0100
committer	Mike Pall <mike>	2009-12-08 19:46:35 +0100
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	1	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
	2	<html>
	3	<head>
	4	<title>LuaJIT</title>
	5	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
	6	<meta name="Author" content="Mike Pall">
	7	<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright (C) 2005-2009, Mike Pall">
	8	<meta name="Language" content="en">
	9	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bluequad.css" media="screen">
	10	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bluequad-print.css" media="print">
	11	</head>
	12	<body>
	13	<div id="site">
	14	<a href="http://luajit.org"><span>Lua<span id="logo">JIT</span></span></a>
	15	</div>
	16	<div id="head">
	17	<h1>LuaJIT</h1>
	18	</div>
	19	<div id="nav">
	20	<ul><li>
	21	<a class="current" href="luajit.html">LuaJIT</a>
	22	<ul><li>
	23	<a href="install.html">Installation</a>
	24	</li><li>
	25	<a href="running.html">Running</a>
	26	</li><li>
	27	<a href="api.html">API Extensions</a>
	28	</li></ul>
	29	</li><li>
	30	<a href="status.html">Status</a>
	31	<ul><li>
	32	<a href="changes.html">Changes</a>
	33	</li></ul>
	34	</li><li>
	35	<a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>
	36	</li><li>
	37	<a href="http://luajit.org/download.html">Download <span class="ext">»</span></a>
	38	</li></ul>
	39	</div>
	40	<div id="main">
	41	<p>
	42	LuaJIT is a <b>Just-In-Time Compiler</b> for the Lua<sup>*</sup>
	43	programming language.
	44	</p>
	45	<p>
	46	LuaJIT is Copyright © 2005-2008 Mike Pall.
	47	LuaJIT is open source software, released under the
	48	<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php"><span class="ext">»</span> MIT/X license</a>.
	49	</p>
	50	<p class="indent" style="color: #606060;">
	51	* Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language
	52	designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
	53	general-purpose, stand-alone language. More information about
	54	Lua can be found at: <a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="ext">»</span> http://www.lua.org/</a>
	55	</p>
	56	<h2>Compatibility</h2>
	57	<p>
	58	LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1.
	59	The virtual machine (VM) is <b>API- and ABI-compatible</b> to the
	60	standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
	61	</p>
	62	<p>
	63	LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It
	64	currently runs on all popular operating systems based on <b>x86 CPUs</b>
	65	(Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). It will be ported to x64 CPUs and other
	66	platforms in the future, based on user demand and sponsoring.
	67	</p>
	68
	69	<h2>Overview</h2>
	70	<p>
	71	LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in
	72	games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many
	73	other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high
	74	performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than
	75	<b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler.
	76	</p>
	77	<p>
	78	LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely
	79	considered to be <b>one of the fastest dynamic language
	80	implementations</b>. It has outperfomed other dynamic languages on many
	81	cross-language benchmarks since its first release — often by a
	82	substantial margin. Only now, in 2009, other dynamic language VMs are
	83	starting to catch up with the performance of LuaJIT 1.x …
	84	</p>
	85	<p>
	86	2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited <b>LuaJIT 2.0</b>.
	87	The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up and relentlessly
	88	optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed interpreter,
	89	written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
	90	</p>
	91	<p>
	92	An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced,
	93	SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This
	94	allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic
	95	language features. It's destined to break into the performance range
	96	traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
	97	</p>
	98
	99	<h2>More ...</h2>
	100	<p>
	101	Click on the LuaJIT sub-topics in the navigation bar to learn more
	102	about LuaJIT.
	103	</p>
	104	<p><p>
	105	Click on the Logo in the upper left corner to visit
	106	the LuaJIT project page on the web. All other links to online
	107	resources are marked with a '<span class="ext">»</span>'.
	108	</p>
	109	<br class="flush">
	110	</div>
	111	<div id="foot">
	112	<hr class="hide">
	113	Copyright © 2005-2009 Mike Pall
	114	<span class="noprint">
	115	·
	116	<a href="contact.html">Contact</a>
	117	</span>
	118	</div>
	119	</body>
	120	</html>