axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 months agoThere are two types of Lua userslemmy.cafeimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down110
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minus-squareDrew@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI don’t think luajit compiles lua to C and then compiles the C, that would be pretty silly. JIT compilers directly output machine code. And as long as you can do something in a higher level language there’s no need to involve manual memory management or tracking ownership (rust)
I don’t think luajit compiles lua to C and then compiles the C, that would be pretty silly. JIT compilers directly output machine code.
And as long as you can do something in a higher level language there’s no need to involve manual memory management or tracking ownership (rust)