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Monday, February 28, 2005

Paper: The Implementation of Lua 5.0

The Implementation of Lua 5.0 (PDF), via OSNews.com, via LtU.

Very interesting paper. Highlights include their explanations of their conversion from a stack-based to a register-based VM, the merits of their "tagged union"-based data type, their array-optimized "table" (associative array) data structure, and their implementation of closures.

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