Mudlet - Forum

"The FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code." [http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html]

I built a LuaJIT2 version of Mudlet before, but the perfomance improvements (on my poor benchmarks) weren't awesome so I didn't push the idea too much. The FFI however changes things, and besides, possibly, making binding Qt stuff in Mudlet easier, will help experienced coders play around with even more powerful structures and exotic algorithms for curing systems

I'll see about finding the stuff and publishing my changes this weekend if nobody else gets to it sooner.

Huh. I wonder if I could figure out a way to call custom qt interfaces (windows!) not shipped with mudlet...

Yeah, that'll be nice to do. Threading will need to be solved though (but you could import a threading lib in Mudlet).

I'm wondering, though, how much other than playing directly with QT the JIT library will do for us. I've never had a problem getting my system to do what I want in Lua, and I'm trying to think of where I'd actually add in C structs.

I haven't either, but there were people who liked bitwise operations for their curing stuffs... (which will be available because a bit library comes with LuaJIT anyway, but ...). Who knows. Maybe someone will want to implement efficient Markov chains and automate their character! (what am I talking about? but only time can tell.)

hmm, I didn't see that the LuaJIT comes with a bitwise library. That's absolutely awesome. I might actually go back and rewrite some of my stuff to use bitwise comparison!

I did it a bit sooner: http://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2041