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		PeCaN on March 14, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful softwa... But... Lua is a register-based VM since like Lua 5. Not disputing that Rio Lua is also an excellent work though. Lua 5.1 only has 38 opcodes total. A complete description of how the VM works fits on a page or so.

jballanc on March 14, 2016 [–]

D'oh, my mistake. The VM is, indeed, register-based. The C API is stack-based. But yes, a very lovely bit of code all together.

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