The implementation of Lua 5.0

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo | Ierusalimschy, Roberto | Celes, Waldemar

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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.

Anexos:

• sblp2005.pdf