The Implementation of Lua 5.0

Roberto Ierusalimschy,Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo,Waldemar Celes Filho

The Implementation of Lua 5.0

2005

Roberto Ierusalimschy
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
Waldemar Celes Filho

We discuss the main novelties of the implementation of Lua 5.0: its register- based virtual machine, the new algorithm for optimizing tables used as arrays, the implementation of closures, and the addition of coroutines.

Keywords:

Closure (computer programming)
Coroutine
Hash table
Computer science
Virtual machine
Theoretical computer science
Parallel computing
Programming language
Data mining

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