Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0
- From: Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>
- Date: 2008年3月19日 17:36:44 +0100
Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but what's the upside of that? :)
I mean, is the parrot vm significantly faster or easier to deploy than
luas, or is it supposed to be a bridge between languages or some such?
From what I can tell, lua will run wherever parrot does, so if it's not
a major performance increase etc, etc, what's the upside?
François Perrad wrote:
Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running
dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see
http://www.parrotcode.org/).
Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.6.0.
A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 (aligned on 5.1.3) is available :
- an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate
Representation) that generates PIR
- a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR)
- a test suite (more than 980 tests)
For the first time, with Parrot 0.6.0, all garbage collection problems
seem to be fixed.
Documentation starts in
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup
and
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup.
Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome
on Parrot mailing list (perl6-internals@perl.org).
François Perrad.