Re: Lua is faster than Java?

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Chris Marrin wrote:
> My group is using Lua in a 3D graphics application. We recently did 
> tests where we could perform operations on a 3D mesh of 120x120 points 
> (14,000 points) at 60 Hz. We had previously done the same thing in 
> Javascript and could barely do 150 points at that rate. That's 2 orders 
> of magnitude better!
>
> For us the issue is not whether or not Lua is faster or slower than 
> Java.

I couldn't let this just pass, though: JavaScript is by no
means related to Java, short of the former being very vaguely
'inspired' by the latter at one point in marketing history.

Cheers,
--Adam
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Adam D. Moss   -   adam@gimp.org