A simple interpreter for Lua written in Rust.

How to build

cargo build --release

How to run the interpreter

cargo run --release -p luavm -- filename.lua

How to run the compiler

cargo run --release -p luacompiler -- filename.lua

This will generate a filename.luabc file, which can also be used as input to luavm.

How to run the benchmarks on Debian GNU/Linux

You must have installed:

• rustc and cargo
• make
• python3

The ./deps.sh script installs rustup together with rust, cargo, and other libraries that are needed by lua and luajit.

The ./build.sh downloads, installs, and builds in this folder:

• multitime
• lua5.3
• luajit
• luster

To run a particular benchmark, such as fib.lua, you can use the run.py script:

./run.py -b ./benchmarks/fib.lua -n <number_of_times_to_run>

For more options please see ./run.py --help.