LuaJIT is a high-performance Lua language implementation and just-in-time compiler. It functions as an embedded scripting engine and dynamic binary translator that converts portable bytecode into native machine code during execution.
The main features of luajit/luajit are: Just-In-Time Compilation, Dynamic Binary Translators, JIT-Compiled Bytecode Execution, General JIT Compilers, Embedded Scripting Engines, High-Performance Scripting, Machine Code Generation, Lua.
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