Llvm Lua

wiki

Web site: http://code.google.com/p/llvm-lua/

Features

• JIT compile Lua scripts to native code using LLVM's JIT engine. JIT supports x86, x86_64, PowerPC 32/64 processors.
• Compile Lua scripts to native (to any cpu architecture supported by LLVM) executables.

Download

• [llvm-lua-1.0.tar.bz] llvm-lua 1.0 code.

Requires

• [LLVM] 2.5 release.
• llvm-gcc 4.2.x from LLVM.
• Patches to the core Lua 5.1.4 code:
  • [Emergency Garbage Collector]
  • [LuaCoco-1.1.4], required for coroutine support.
  • A few members were added to the Proto & Closure structures, to support the JIT/compile code.

TODO list

• Add debug info to generated LLVM IR.

Author

RobertGabrielJakabosky