Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 3.0 alpha

[Veijo Vilva <vilva@...>]

On Apr 04, 1997 at 05:50:33PM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> 
> version 3.0 is now available for alpha testing at the usual sites (see below).
> the documentation and the tests have not been updated yet.
> 
> the purpose of this release is to make sure that no programs have been broken.
> please test it and send us your comments.
> --lhf
> 

   An initial test indicates that v3.0a might work OK except for
   a slowdown by a factor of almost 4 :

     loj > time lua htmlp.lua < chap18.html > t.tex
     2.65user 0.06system 0:02.83elapsed 95%CPU
     loj > time lua3 htmlp.lua < chap18.html > tt.tex
     10.34user 0.12system 0:11.16elapsed 93%CPU
     loj > ls -l chap18.html
     -rw-r--r--   1 vilva    adm        101704 Apr  1 15:17 chap18.html
     loj > ls -l t.tex
     -rw-r--r--   1 vilva    adm        122229 Apr 16 08:25 t.tex
     loj > ls -l tt.tex
     -rw-r--r--   1 vilva    adm        122229 Apr 16 08:25 tt.tex
     loj > cmp t.tex tt.tex
     loj > 
     
   htmlp.lua is a restricted HTML to LaTeX converter script I wrote to
   evaluate lua. I made no changes to the configs in either case.

   The test environment is

      Linux version 2.0.30 (gcc version 2.7.2.f.1)

   The script and the test material are available at

      http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojftp/htmlp.lua
      http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojftp/reference-grammar/chap18.html
      
   
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