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		swolchok on Nov 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are Google employees being discouraged from using ... That surprises me. Doesn't LuaJIT simply spit out subroutine-threaded code?

whye on Nov 10, 2009 [–]

No. It is much, much more sophisticated than that. See this message by Mike Pall, LuaJIT's author for the details:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908

Tichy on Nov 11, 2009 | [–]

That's one badass post.

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