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lua2llvm

In this toy project, I intend to write a compiler for Lua.

I want to see whether static analysis of code for dynamic languages can be utilized to

generate fast binaries.

Goals:

• performance

Explicit non-goals:

• Lua feature parity

• fast compile times

Currently this project contains my lua "reference implementation" interpreter.

It can be invoked with cargo run <main.lua>

The project now also contains a simple compiler from Lua to LLVM IR.

file.lua can be compiled and executed by running main.sh.