Lunacy - Lua 5.1 interpreter with Lazy Basic Block Versioning and JIT
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New Lua JIT interpreter with Lazy Basic Block Versioning; technically deep and novel, relevant to compiler interest.
Summary
Lunacy applies Lazy Basic Block Versioning (LBBV), from Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert's Higgs JIT research, to a Lua 5.1 interpreter written in Rust. It uses Rust coroutines to yield effects for type guards and operations, separating compile-time specialization from runtime residual code, and includes a JIT compiler for hot paths without exponential block blowup.