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Update docs for PPC port. Clarify and extend install instructions.

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Mike Pall
2010-10-05 01:36:54 +02:00
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@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
<p>
LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It
currently runs on all popular operating systems based on
<b>x86 or x64 CPUs</b> (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.).
<b>x86</b> or <b>x64 CPUs</b> (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.) or embedded Linux
systems based on <b>PPC/e500v2 CPUs</b>.
Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand
and sponsoring.
</p>
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ LuaJIT has been successfully used as a <b>scripting middleware</b> in
games, 3D modellers, numerical simulations, trading platforms and many
other specialty applications. It combines high flexibility with high
performance and an unmatched <b>low memory footprint</b>: less than
<b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler.
<b>120K</b> for the VM plus less than <b>80K</b> for the JIT compiler (on x86).
</p>
<p>
LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely
@@ -96,9 +97,13 @@ written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
An innovative <b>trace compiler</b> is integrated with advanced,
SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This
allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic
language features. It's destined to break into the
<a href="http://luajit.org/performance.html"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;performance</a> range
traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
language features.
</p>
<p>
It's destined to break into the <a href="http://luajit.org/performance.html"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;performance</a>
range traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
Have look at these <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&d=data&calc=calculate&gpp=on&java=on&luajit=on&v8=on&lua=on&tracemonkey=on&box=1"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;cross-language benchmarks</a>
to see how it ranks against the competition.
</p>
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