Luajittex 0.72.0 announcement

Luajittex 0.72.0 announcement

[luigi scarso]

Hi,
there is a new project on supelec: Luajittex.

Briefly, it's like luatex with Lua replaced by LuaJIT.
See
http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luajittex/
for the source code.

Please note that LuaJIT is based on lua 5.1, while luatex is now
based on lua 5.2 --- this means that binaries modules must be kept separate.
The tag 0.72.0 means that luajittex is in sinc with the tag 0.72.0 of luatex;
I'm working to keep in sinc with the last tag.
I've compiled the source for Linux 64bit (Ubuntu 12.10)  Linux 32bit
(Opensuse 12.1) and crosscompiled for Mingw32bit and they seem to work
but of course any feedback is appreciate.



The new engine is available with context (mkiv) with
--engine=luajittex

--
luigi
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Re: Luajittex 0.72.0 announcement

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> Hi,
> there is a new project on supelec: Luajittex.
>
> Briefly, it's like luatex with Lua replaced by LuaJIT.
> See
> http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luajittex/
> for the source code.
>
> Please note that LuaJIT is based on lua 5.1, while luatex is now
> based on lua 5.2 --- this means that binaries modules must be kept separate.
> The tag 0.72.0 means that luajittex is in sinc with the tag 0.72.0 of luatex;
> I'm working to keep in sinc with the last tag.
> I've compiled the source for Linux 64bit (Ubuntu 12.10)  Linux 32bit
> (Opensuse 12.1) and crosscompiled for Mingw32bit and they seem to work
> but of course any feedback is appreciate.
>
>
>
> The new engine is available with context (mkiv) with
> --engine=luajittex

I only wanted to say that luajittex is now available in the
distribution for most of the platforms.

(It's missing on Solaris. The build for 32-bit Mac OS X fails on the
builder's machine and on 64-bit it crashes with "Can't create the Lua
state.", but you are welcome to test everywhere else.)

Mojca
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