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by microcolonel 2370 days ago
Indeed, I've been looking at writing a new backend (ambitious and foolish, many have tried, I know), so I was looking for the hottest fork, but RaptorJIT specifically guts most of the backends, and the other forks were not really doing anything.
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lukego 2370 days ago
RaptorJIT has a mostly finished port of the bytecode interpreter to C. That should make new arches /much/ easier to support because you don't have to hand-code a VM in asm, only write a JIT assembler backend. Check it out at https://github.com/raptorjit/raptorjit/pull/254

Current status is that it passed the LuaJIT test suite but that's not 100% coverage and it doesn't call into the JIT yet.

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microcolonel 2370 days ago
What sort of performance have you been getting?
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