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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Out of curiosity, does anyone have a technical explanation to offer
> for why Lua performs up to 30x worse than Python and Perl in the
> pidigits benchmark?
>
> Link: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=python
>
> Matthew
>

Hmm, also interesting, it appears to perform better on a gentoo
machine: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=python