Re: JavaScript gets bigger

[Don Hopkins <dhopkins@...>]

Lua has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to be as big and as slow 
as JavaScript.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=javascript&lang2=lua

Any guess why the one benchmark that Lua does badly on (using lots of 
memory, but not running slowly) is fannkuch?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fannkuch&lang=lua&id=0
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fannkuch&lang=javascript&id=0

   -Don

John Belmonte wrote:
> Since I wasn't able to cause any controversy at the workshop...
>
> JavaScript is playing catch-up with Lua.  New features from
> <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/New_in_JavaScript_1.7>:
>
>     * Generators and iterators (i.e. yield)
>     * "let" (i.e. proper lexical scoping)
>     * destructuring assignment - (i.e. assignment and return of multiple
> values)
>     * array comprehensions - (i.e. "{f()}" for those afraid of
> functional programming)
>
> I predict these new features will add (NUM_LUA_MANUAL_PAGES * 3) pages
> to the JavaScript specification.
>
> --John
>