Re: pidigits benchmark

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

On Aug 17, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Matthew Wild wrote:

> 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
I'd say the majority of performance in that benchmark completely  
depends on how GMP is compiled... definitely the type of benchmark  
that seems unfair to me... however it seems nearly all of the  
implementations of pidigits use gmp...