berry VS Pluto

This is interesting, but lua needs a refresh.

I think berrylang shows a lot of promise now https://berry-lang.github.io/. The documentation has improved a lot and while it doesn't have a 'luajit' yet it has a lot of really interesting optimisation/reduction techniques.

If like me you like to look at examples of code to get a feel for the language, take a look at https://github.com/berry-lang/berry/tree/master/examples

There'salso tge Berry language tha's built into tasmota32.

https://github.com/berry-lang/berry

I looked into the jump table optimization. The normal Lua version is here[1] and it uses the opcode as a index into a static array to jump to the label. The “faster” Pluto version is here[2] and it just uses a switch statement on the labels. I would naively assume that these would compile to the same code because the lua version is just manually creating the jump table and the pluto version is leaving it to the compiler. How could the compiler optimize the switch so that would outperform the manual jump table (by a decent margin)?

[1] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptabgcc...

[2] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptab.h

You can just compile the script through plutoc to see if there are any errors, or use Pluto Language Server to have errors show up in your IDE.

Pluto :troll240p: