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IIRC this project was abandoned after Mike Pall stepped down from LuaJIT maintenance.

There are a couple attempts made by other people to get this implemented:

- https://github.com/fsfod/LuaJIT/commits/gcarena - https://github.com/corsix/LuaJIT/commits/newgc

I'm not sure what the status is on either, though; they're obviously completely different implementations so it's not clear which one of these is preferable (also both authors seem to be busy with other stuff recently).

"Clone Mike Pall": https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/45

Fixes still being committed by Mike Pall, https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/master

What does he do right now?

Legend has it that after completing his mission, he returned to a future where performant JIT compilers have ensured world peace and the prosperity of mankind for thousands of years.

Still committing regularly to the 2.1 branch.

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/v2.1

What's his day job? Internet is dark about this guy.

I've met Mike Pall in person. I've worked with him some since I helped facilitate a sponsorship from Google (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2010/01/love-for-luajit.ht...). A lot of his work on LuaJIT has been supported by various sponsorships (see: https://luajit.org/sponsors.html). This gives him a lot of freedom to work the way he wants to, instead of working as part of a larger organization.

Also note that the sponsorship page says that Mike is currently working on "unrelated projects", so apparently things besides LuaJIT are keeping him busy now.

What did he work on before LuaJIT? Seems like he could have been involved in CPU design? He thinks more like a hardware guy than a C programmer.

I don't know that much about his background. I didn't get much of a chance to talk shop with him (which is too bad, I would have loved to pick his brain about all sorts of things). I also assume from the lack of info about him on the Internet that he's a somewhat private person, so I definitely wanted/want to respect that.

This won't do all that much to fill in any gaps in his CV, but here's something else he wrote: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=656

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