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by tiffanyh 4251 days ago
>> "In this context, they mean embedded devices (typically running machine code on non-x86 architecture CPUs: ARM, AVR, etc)."

Sorry, but I'm still not understanding the value.

I'll paste an excerpt from Lua official website:

"Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. All you need to build Lua is an ANSI C compiler (gcc is a popular one). Lua also compiles cleanly as C++."[1]

Even LuaJIT has non-x86 support [2].

[1] http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.1

[2] http://luajit.org/performance.html

edit: typo