From ddae8878786a310f2e6cbe2a1d602a17ea28bb11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Pall Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:36:54 +0200 Subject: Update docs for PPC port. Clarify and extend install instructions. --- doc/luajit.html | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/luajit.html') diff --git a/doc/luajit.html b/doc/luajit.html index 90cd9997..71e6a19f 100644 --- a/doc/luajit.html +++ b/doc/luajit.html @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.

LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It currently runs on all popular operating systems based on -x86 or x64 CPUs (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). +x86 or x64 CPUs (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.) or embedded Linux +systems based on PPC/e500v2 CPUs. Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand and sponsoring.

@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ LuaJIT has been successfully used as a scripting middleware in games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high performance and an unmatched low memory footprint: less than -120K for the VM plus less than 80K for the JIT compiler. +120K for the VM plus less than 80K for the JIT compiler (on x86).

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. An innovative trace compiler 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. +language features. +

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+It's destined to break into the » performance +range traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers. +Have look at these » cross-language benchmarks +to see how it ranks against the competition.

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