As far as benchmarking is concerned, neko feels on par with Python,
which is to say not very fast compared to VM based language like Java
or even Lua. Lua is certainly the fastest interpreted language there is.
I studied a bit more the Lua internals and setup a comparison document
there :
http://nekovm.org/lua
I'll maybe post it for review on the Lua list once I'm back from
holidays.
Nicolas
This is really interesting. Do you know some good resources on VM
implementations (books or course material)? Maybe I should just read the
Neko VM source code...
Alex
The best to learn is to read VM source code and experiment with it. The
Neko VM core is mainly inspired by the OCaml bytecode VM, which is
really fast (the shootout seems to list only the OCaml native compiler
results which are excellent btw).
Nicolas
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Neko : One VM to run them all
(http://nekovm.org)
