Re: [ANN] CLX - Ahead-of-Time Lua 5.5 Compiler

Yes optimizations pass try to deduce types to generate more efficient 
C++ code. If inference is not possible then it uses boxed values.

Le 23/06/2026 02:05, David Sicilia a écrit :

> Does it attempt to do type inference on code (e.g. function parameters, 
> return values) to increase efficiency of generated code, or does it 
> leave those values as boxed/generic values?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Metatables and metamethods are supported and are an important part of 
> Lua compatibility.
> 
> Optimizations are designed not to change observable Lua behavior.
> 
> If you have a specific metamethod edge case in mind, I'd be interested 
> in testing it against CLX :)
> 
> Le 22/06/2026 21:13, 'eugeny gladkih' via lua-l a écrit :
> 
> On 22 Jun 2026, at 10:58, Samir Tine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That's a fair question.
> The goal is not to intentionally exclude Lua features. In fact, CLX 
> already supports essentially all Lua 5.5 syntax (including global, 
> <const> and <close>) and most of the standard library.
> The main unsupported areas today are features that fundamentally depend 
> on runtime code generation or deep interpreter introspection, such as 
> load(), loadfile(), dofile(), string.dump(), and most of the debug 
> module.
> what about meta tables and meta-methods? suddenly, a+b is not the same 
> as b+a is :)
> 
> --
> Yours sincerely, Eugeny.

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