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

Thank you for your questions !

Current optimizations include constant folding, constant propagation, 
dead code elimination, function inlining, native number fastpaths, and 
tail-call optimizations when applicable. CLX also performs a number of 
Lua-specific simplifications during code generation.

CLX does not currently perform full static type inference. It relies 
primarily on compile-time analysis and specialization when types can be 
determined with sufficient confidence.

Generated functions currently operate on CLX runtime values rather than 
directly exposing native C++ signatures.

The Lua C API is not supported today. CLX provides its own C++ module 
API, although some form of compatibility layer may be explored in the 
future.

Le 23/06/2026 08:07, 'Sewbacca' via lua-l a écrit :

> What kind of optimizations do you have implemented and how do you infer 
> parameter types? Are the resulting C++ signatures directly callable 
> from C++? And is C API interop planned at some point (so one is not 
> excluded from the already existing ecosystem?
> 
> A very interesting Project you have here =)
> 
> ~ Sewbacca
> 
> 23.06.2026 02:26:07 [email protected]:
> 
>> Yes optimizations pass try to deduce types to generate more efficient 
>> C++ code
> 
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