YLua VM

YLua VM is yet another a metacircular Lua VM, it was written in Lua, and do not a lua compiler, you still need compile lua source code by a bootstrap lua tool.

Getting started

You can simply launch it by a bootstrap lua and pass a file name as it's input

$ lua ylua.lua <filename>
$ lua ylua.lua <filename> --deubug

And you can run unit test to make sure YLua work well

$ ./runtest

Please feel free to issue any bugs or pull request to add new features.

Reference

[1] http://luaforge.net/docman/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLua51VMInstructions.pdf

[2] http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/lua-5.2-bytecode-vm-dirk-laurie/lua52vm.html

[3] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html

[4] https://blog.tst.sh/lua-5-2-5-3-bytecode-reference-incomplete/