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@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement. | |||
65 | <p> | 65 | <p> |
66 | LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It | 66 | LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It |
67 | currently runs on all popular operating systems based on | 67 | currently runs on all popular operating systems based on |
68 | <b>x86 or x64 CPUs</b> (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). | 68 | <b>x86</b> or <b>x64 CPUs</b> (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.) or embedded Linux |
69 | systems based on <b>PPC/e500v2 CPUs</b>. | ||
69 | Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand | 70 | Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand |
70 | and sponsoring. | 71 | and sponsoring. |
71 | </p> | 72 | </p> |
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in | |||
76 | games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many | 77 | games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many |
77 | other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high | 78 | other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high |
78 | performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than | 79 | performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than |
79 | <b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler. | 80 | <b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler (on x86). |
80 | </p> | 81 | </p> |
81 | <p> | 82 | <p> |
82 | LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely | 83 | LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely |
@@ -96,9 +97,13 @@ written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler. | |||
96 | An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced, | 97 | An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced, |
97 | SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This | 98 | SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This |
98 | allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic | 99 | allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic |
99 | language features. It's destined to break into the | 100 | language features. |
100 | <a href="http://luajit.org/performance.html"><span class="ext">»</span> performance</a> range | 101 | </p> |
101 | traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers. | 102 | <p> |
103 | It's destined to break into the <a href="http://luajit.org/performance.html"><span class="ext">»</span> performance</a> | ||
104 | range traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers. | ||
105 | Have look at these <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&d=data&calc=calculate&gpp=on&java=on&luajit=on&v8=on&lua=on&tracemonkey=on&box=1"><span class="ext">»</span> cross-language benchmarks</a> | ||
106 | to see how it ranks against the competition. | ||
102 | </p> | 107 | </p> |
103 | 108 | ||
104 | <h2>More ...</h2> | 109 | <h2>More ...</h2> |