Re: Interest in Lua Web Plug-in?

[therandthem <therandthem@...>]

Mark,

http://www.playercore.com/pub/Tamarin/Avmplus_vs._javascript.htm

Be
aware that Spidermonkey is slower than just about everything else out
there.  The fact that Tamarin is faster than Spidermonkey is something
that PHP, Ruby and Perl can claim too.  The fact that Tamarin has to
use static typing to actually be faster is even worse.  See http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ for all popular languages.

Now,
it is possible that Tamarin could become as fast as Lua.  What is
probably not going to happen, however, is some interpreted or byte code
language with dynamic typing surpassing Lua.  Lua is the leader and it
is up to everyone else to knock it off its perch.

Thanks,

McKinley

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@adobe.com>
To: Lua list <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>; therandthem <therandthem@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2007 11:54:28 AM
Subject: Re: Interest in Lua Web Plug-in?

on 3/1/07 9:24 PM, therandthem at therandthem@yahoo.com wrote:

> Part of the reason is the sad benchmarks coming from
> the new Tamarin Javascript implementation.  Sure, they
> are faster than Rhino (Javascript in Java) or
> Spidermonkey (used by Firefox), but it is so slow
> compared to Lua and LuaJIT.  Tamarin is the future of
> Flash and Firefox.  It is the next 10 years.

Do you have a pointer to these benchmarks?

Mark







 
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