Re: [Cluecc-users] Old Version of Sparse does not compile anymore.

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

On 10/03/13 15:29, Michael K wrote:
[...]
> And Lua5.2 has a goto statement. But working without goto is the core
> feature of cluecc for me. Maybe I have the time to work on a lua5.2
> backend.

I have, actually, just gotten that working. The Whetstone benchmarks are:

gcc directly:       2582
clue -> LuaJIT:     2482
clue -> C:          2361
clue -> Java:        784
clue -> Javascript:  105
clue -> Perl:          2.7

...which is rather encouraging.

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