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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Key Features of Lua
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* Lua's compiler is designed to be fast and frugal - it generates code as it parses, there is no intermediate AST construction
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* Like C, Lua comes with a very small standard library - in fact Lua's standard library is just a wrapper for C standard library
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plus some basic utilities for Lua
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* Lua's standard library includes regular expressions library
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* Lua's standard library includes a basic regular expressions library
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* Lua provides a debug API that can be used to manipulate Lua's internals to a degree - and can be used to implement a debugger
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* Lua has an incremental garbage collector
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* Lua is single threaded but its VM is small and encapsulated in a single data structure - hence each OS thread can be given its own
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