Re: New LuaJIT benchmark results (was Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta3)

[Mike Pall <mikelu-1003@...>]

Peter Cawley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Mike Pall <mikelu-1003@mike.de> wrote:
> >> what's the story with the binary-trees benchmark?  Is it a GC
> >> thing, a recursive thing or is it a bad benchmark?
> >
> > It's mainly a GC benchmark and only incidentally uses recursion.
> 
> Is it acceptable to use to inside-out structures strategy for the
> benchmark, and hence implement each object as entries in three tables,
> rather than each object being a table containing three entries?

Nope. The idea is to be able to compare different languages using
the same algorithms and the same approach.

--Mike