The Implementation of Lua 5.0

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Volume 11 / Issue 7

		available in:   HTML (50 kB) PDF (165 kB) PS (156 kB)   get:   Similar Docs BibTeX   Write a comment     get:   Links into Future   DOI:   10.3217/jucs-011-07-1159   The Implementation of Lua 5.0 Roberto Ierusalimschy (Department of Computer Science, PUC-Rio, Brazil) Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo (IMPA-Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil) Waldemar Celes (Department of Computer Science, PUC-Rio, Brazil) Abstract: We discuss the main novelties of the implementation of Lua 5.0: its register-based virtual machine, the new algorithm for optimizing tables used as arrays, the implementation of closures, and the addition of coroutines. Keywords: closures, compilers, coroutines, hash tables, virtual machines Categories: D.3.2, D.3.3, D.3.4, E.2

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