Re: Question about Lua 5.1.3 and realloc() on life.lua

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0805@...>]

Bogdan Marinescu wrote:
> tried to run different tests (such as bisect.lua, factorial.lua,
> speed-test.lua) [...]

Slightly more realistic tests (ok, these are benchmarks and not
applications) can be found here:

  http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=lua

Only a few allocate anything in the inner loops:
  binary-trees, fasta, k-nucleotide, regex-dna, reverse-complement

Two string-happy Lua apps are DynASM and dis_x86 (to be found in
the LuaJIT distribution).

--Mike