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Re:Bitty Engine: A tiny powerful game engine by setr on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:41PM (#37500812)
I think it’s less that it’s particularly good for gamedev and more that it’s particularly easy to embed in an engine, and it’s faster than it has any right to be
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Re:Bitty Engine: A tiny powerful game engine by 40four on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:56PM (#37500955)
Appreciate it!
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Re:Bitty Engine: A tiny powerful game engine by ansible on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:27PM (#37501302)
> ... and it’s faster than it has any right to be

The main Lua interpreter by PUC-Rio is among the fastest bytecode interpreters for a popular scripting language. Very efficient C code.

Wizard programmer Mike Pall then came along and wrote an even faster Lua bytecode interpreter in assembly language. And added JIT for even faster performance of hot functions.

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