LuaJIT on Emscripten?

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Elliott Slaughter

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Nov 15, 2015, 5:23:11 PM11/15/15

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Hi,

Has anyone here tried LuaJIT on Emscripten? Any idea how difficult it would be?

I've got a little language I was hoping to build an online demo for, and it needs LuaJIT to run. (And yes, it has to be LuaJIT, not Lua.) I could always set up a sandbox on a server somewhere, but it would be so much cooler if it ran on Emscripten...

Thanks in advance.

Elliott Slaughter

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Alon Zakai

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Nov 15, 2015, 6:06:41 PM11/15/15

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LuaJIT is not portable C code - the interpreter is handwritten x86/ARM/other assembly, and the JIT emits x86/ARM/other assembly as well. So an interpreter would need to be written that can run on the web, in C or asm.js, as well as a JIT backend.

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