On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:06 -0700, therandthem wrote: > It seems like Lua is just about the fastest dynamic > language implementation every.
I doubt this. Lua has hardly any operations, so it isn't surprising it does those fast. The Shootout isn't a meaningful guide to anything. Testing some of the same things I get wildly different results (and my results are the result of re-running the tests in random order over many hours). -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
