Just-in-time compiler for the Lua programming language
LuaJIT
The logo featured on the LuaJIT website.
Original author(s)
Mike Pall
Stable release
2.0.5 (later v2.1.ROLLING is also updated, e.g. in 2023)
/ May 1, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-05-01)
Repository
github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT
Written in
C, Lua
Operating system
Unix-like, MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android, PlayStation
Platform
x86, X86-64, PowerPC, ARM, MIPS[1]
Type
Just-in-time compiler
License
MIT License[2]
Website
luajit.org
LuaJIT is a tracing just-in-time compiler for the Lua programming language. Mike Pall, a primary maintainer of the project had resigned in 2015, resorting only to occasional patching to the future 2.1 version.[3]
^"LuaJIT". LuaJIT. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
^"LuaJIT/COPYRIGHT at v2.1 · LuaJIT/LuaJIT". GitHub. 7 January 2022.
^"[ANN] Looking for new LuaJIT maintainers - luajit - FreeLists". www.freelists.org. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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