peer-reviewed paper on the energy efficiency of Lua vs. LuaJIT vs. C

well evidenced and fascinating to see actual energy comparisons.

abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16670

pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.16670

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tiny lua compiler: a lua compiler in a single file, that's well-documented, that was hand-crafted over several years, and made to teach you compiler/tokenizer/parser/lexer design.

this is a crazy impressive project, and in a time when people are haphazardly slopcoding projects, is a standard to live by.

https://github.com/bytexenon/Tiny-Lua-Compiler

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