Re: JavaScript gets bigger

[Don Hopkins <dhopkins@...>]

Hmm... Could it be that storing into a table starting at index zero 
makes Lua use more memory (bypassing a table optimization for numeric 
indexes starting at one)? Can anyone think of how to optimize this Lua 
implementation of fannkuch to use less memory?

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


   -Don

Don Hopkins wrote:
> 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