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diff --git a/doc/extensions.html b/doc/extensions.html index fe4df6f7..3ed13804 100644 --- a/doc/extensions.html +++ b/doc/extensions.html @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ or LuaJIT. </p> <p> LuaJIT extends the standard Lua VM with new functionality and adds -several extension modules. Please note this page is only about +several extension modules. Please note, this page is only about <em>functional</em> enhancements and not about performance enhancements, such as the optimized VM, the faster interpreter or the JIT compiler. </p> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ usage. See also the </p> <p> The generated bytecode is portable and can be loaded on any architecture -that LuaJIT supports, independent of word size or endianess. However the +that LuaJIT supports, independent of word size or endianess. However, the bytecode compatibility versions must match. Bytecode stays compatible for dot releases (x.y.0 → x.y.1), but may change with major or minor releases (2.0 → 2.1) or between any beta release. Foreign @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ bytecode (e.g. from Lua 5.1) is incompatible and cannot be loaded. LuaJIT uses a Tausworthe PRNG with period 2^223 to implement <tt>math.random()</tt> and <tt>math.randomseed()</tt>. The quality of the PRNG results is much superior compared to the standard Lua -implementation which uses the platform-specific ANSI rand(). +implementation, which uses the platform-specific ANSI rand(). </p> <p> The PRNG generates the same sequences from the same seeds on all @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Important: Neither this nor any other PRNG based on the simplistic <h3 id="io"><tt>io.*</tt> functions handle 64 bit file offsets</h3> <p> The file I/O functions in the standard <tt>io.*</tt> library handle -64 bit file offsets. In particular this means it's possible +64 bit file offsets. In particular, this means it's possible to open files larger than 2 Gigabytes and to reposition or obtain the current file position for offsets beyond 2 GB (<tt>fp:seek()</tt> method). |