Re: Lua's great (and LuaJIT's broken)

["Javier Guerra" <javier@...>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Sebastien Loisel <loisel@temple.edu> wrote:
> Dear Javier,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
>> i'm curious; how does plain Lua compares to other scrip languages in your
>> code?
>
> The only other scripting language that I use is MATLAB, which has a JIT.

ah, i thought you were comparing it with Python.  no surprise that
MATLAB beats Lua on number crunching... (and a lot other things, i
guess!)

> You will notice that right now, LISP does a lot better than Lua.

also to be expected.  even if it's nicely dynamic, it's one of the
most deeply compiled languages out there.  i guess it's in part
because in the old times, LISP people had to justify all the
high-level features with great compiling techniques. these days, a lot
of people doesn't really care about slow languages.

-- 
Javier