I wonder if they'll beat castl [0], which compiles JS to goto-enabled Lua (Lua 5.2+ and LuaJIT).
Targeting the bytecode directly will not buy much, it is very close to Lua itself, semantically. The LuaJIT parser and bytecode compiler are also wicked fast.
Furthermore, IIRC, the JIT works best with idiomatic Lua code, compiled to "kosher" bytecode by LuaJIT itself.
Targeting the bytecode directly will not buy much, it is very close to Lua itself, semantically. The LuaJIT parser and bytecode compiler are also wicked fast.
Furthermore, IIRC, the JIT works best with idiomatic Lua code, compiled to "kosher" bytecode by LuaJIT itself.
We'll see how it turns out.
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0. https://github.com/PaulBernier/castl