luajit-remake/luajit-remake

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A from-scratch re-engineering of LuaJIT aiming to build a multi-tier method-JIT for Lua, with the interpreter and JIT tiers auto-generated from a semantic description of LuaJIT bytecodes. It currently ships a feature-complete Lua 5.1 interpreter with a re-engineered runtime using hidden classes, though the JIT tiers are still in progress.

Use cases

• run Lua scripts with a faster interpreter
• study how JIT compilers are built
• research auto-generated interpreters from bytecode semantics
• benchmark Lua interpreter performance
• learn about hidden-class based Lua table implementations

When to choose

• you need a faster Lua 5.1 interpreter on x86-64 Linux for benchmarking or research
• you want to study or contribute to novel JIT/interpreter generation techniques

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready Lua runtime with garbage collection
• you need portability beyond x86-64 Linux
• you rely on the package library (require/module) or full standard library coverage

Facets

library · maturity experimental

interpreter compiler programming-language programming-languages compilers performance cpp lua luajit jit method-jit bytecode hidden-class code-generation research linux x86-64

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