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RELEASE LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta2

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Mike Pall
2009-12-08 19:49:20 +01:00
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@@ -90,7 +90,22 @@ known incompatibilities with standard Lua:
<ul>
<li>
The Lua <b>debug API</b> is missing a couple of features (call/return
hooks) and shows slightly different behavior (no per-coroutine hooks).
hooks) and shows slightly different behavior (no per-coroutine hooks,
no tail call counting).
</li>
<li>
<b>Bytecode</b> currently cannot be loaded or dumped. Note that
the bytecode format differs from Lua&nbsp;5.1 &mdash; loading foreign
bytecode is not supported at all.
</li>
<li>
Some of the <b>configuration options</b> of Lua&nbsp;5.1 are not supported:
<ul>
<li>The <b>number type</b> cannot be changed (it's always a <tt>double</tt>).</li>
<li>The stand-alone executable cannot be linked with <b>readline</b>
to enable line editing. It's planned to add support for loading it
on-demand.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Most other issues you're likely to find (e.g. with the existing test
@@ -105,7 +120,7 @@ demonstrable need is shown.
<li>
The <b>JIT compiler</b> is not complete (yet) and falls back to the
interpreter in some cases. All of this works transparently, so unless
you use -jv, you'll probably never notice (the interpreter is quite
you use <tt>-jv</tt>, you'll probably never notice (the interpreter is quite
fast, too). Here are the known issues:
<ul>
<li>
@@ -119,7 +134,7 @@ effort.
</li>
<li>
<b>Recursion</b> is not traced yet. Often no trace will be generated at
all or some unroll limit will catch it and aborts the trace.
all or some unroll limit will catch it and abort the trace.
</li>
<li>
The trace compiler currently does not back off specialization for