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copied!<p>I eventually decided to settle on programming the majority of my application in <strong>Lua</strong> using <a href="http://luajit.org/" rel="nofollow" title="LuaJIT">LuaJIT</a>, for a number of reasons, including:</p> <ul> <li>What I was trying to achieve through <strong>C/C++</strong> is already there in <strong>Lua</strong>, the hash tables and metafacilities specifically, and I was basically re-inventing the wheel.</li> <li>I did some simplistic benchmarking and discovered that most of my scripts would invariably end up bouncing calls to <strong>C</strong> and back to <strong>Lua</strong> very frequently, and that I could optimize away a lot of this by keeping the runtime focus limited to <strong>Lua</strong> by leveraging the bytecode compiler.</li> <li>From my limited experience and research on topics surrounding Just-in-Time compilation, <strong>LuaJIT</strong> (2.0.0-beta8) proves to be quite fast enough for my needs at this point and very possibly near to <strong>C++</strong> levels of memory usage for similar data structures.</li> <li><strong>LuaJIT</strong> also works excellently as a drop-in replacement for vanilla <strong>Lua</strong> and is easy to build; all I had to do was link to its library to get it up and running.</li> </ul> <p>I feel that I am losing a little of "power-user" control over my project by doing this, but I consider this to be due to my inexperience with the intricacies of <strong>Lua</strong> versus my knowledge of <strong>C++</strong>.</p>

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