Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:32:14 +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median)
beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very
similar to Python. I know it's just a benchmark but this has to count
as insanely impressive.
I guess
Pauli Virtanen pav at iki.fi writes:
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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
