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This is a new initiative to build a VM for Ravi/Lua 5.3 using techniques similar to LuaJIT.
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Note: This work is temporarily on hold due to changes in bytecode encoding.
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Goals
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* Create a new Lua/Ravi interpreter that is coded mostly in assembly
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* Initial work will focus on X86-64 architecture only
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* The VM will support the extended bytecode set of Ravi
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* An equally important goal is to document the effort so that it is easier for others to understand how the VM is implemented
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Design Notes
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* `Notes on LuaJIT <https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi/blob/master/vmbuilder/docs/luajit_buildvm.rst>`_
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* `VM Design and Implementation Notes <https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi/blob/master/vmbuilder/docs/vm-design.rst>`_
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Timescales
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This project will proceed slowly as this is my first foray into assembly language programming. Also I can only spend time on this project in my free time (i.e. weekends and holidays).
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Acknowledgements
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I plan to reuse parts of LuaJIT / dynasm for this project.
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