Published July 28, 2005 | Version v1
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The Implementation of Lua 5.0

  • 1. PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2. The Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 3. Department of Computer Science, PUC-Rio, Brazil

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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.

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