Re: OT complied language most like Lua?

[Antonio Vieiro <antonio@...>]

I've seen some benchmarks in recent LuaJit2 (can't remember where
right now) and in some cases it was better than gcc!

Cheers,
Antonio

2010/5/25 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
> * Antonio Vieiro:
>
>> As far as I undestand JIT optimization gives better results than any
>> sort of static code optimization [1]. This is, JIT can outperform any
>> optimization done by any compiler statically.
>
> It's not true for startup/warmup time, and not necessarily true for
> memory footprint on multi-process systems (such as all current desktop
> and server operating systems).  But beyond that, JIT compilation is
> theoretically superior because by definition, it has more data to work
> with than ahead-of-time compilation (and you could even try the
> ahead-of-time version and see if it's faster and use that).
>