Re: LuaJIT performance

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> > On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> > > What tracing JITs are there other than TraceMonkey and LuaJIT2?
> >
> > TraceMonkey is the poster child for tracing JITs at this point, I  
> > think, and
> > V8 is generally reported to be faster. I don't know what the status  
> > is on
> > Tamarind Tracing.
>
> Oh yes, I forgot about Tamarin which (IIRC) was an ancestor of
> TraceMonkey developed by Adobe for ActionScript.
>
> AFAIK V8 isn't a trace JIT: it has a Self-style backend.

Correct V8 does fairly straightforward code generation. The point is  
that it seems to be outpacing Trace Monkey. (That said, I haven't seen  
any definitive benchmarks.)

Mark