Pauli Virtanen <pav <at> iki.fi> writes: -snip- > It's possible that in the cases where Lua wins, the Lua code is not > completely equivalent to the Fortran code, or uses stuff such as strings > for which Lua's default implementation may be efficient.
Note - not "Lua's default implementation" but LuaJIT. > At least in the mandelbrot example some things differ. I wonder if Lua > there takes advantage of SIMD instructions because the author of the code > has manually changed the inmost loop to process two elements at once? Note - the fastest Fortran mandelbrot program is written to use OpenMP, but those u32 measurements are when the programs are forced onto one core. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
