Re: Learning Lua

[Binh Nguyen <ngbinh@...>]

Have you tried LuaJIT ?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Victor Poughon
<victor.poughon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> This is my first post on this list, after lots of reading.
> So i'm learning Lua. I find it great so far.
> I'm trying to write code "thinking in Lua" not just "thinking in C, then
> translating to Lua".
>
> So i'm going through Project Euler' problems. I recently solved this one :
>
> http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=14
>
> Using this code :
>
> function mesure(n)
>   local i = 0
>   while n ~= 1 do
>     if n % 2 == 0 then n = n / 2
>     else n = 3*n + 1 end
>     i = i + 1
>   end
>   return i
> end
>
> local begin = os.time()
>
> local max = 0
> local maxi = 0
> for i = 1, arg[1] or 10 do
>   local new = mesure(i)
>   if new > max then
>     max = new
>     maxi = i
>   end
> end
>
> io.write("Done. ", os.difftime(os.time(), begin), "s.\n")
> io.write("i = ", maxi)
> Also on pastebin here : http://pastebin.com/TDPeza7y
> When running it until 1,000,000 it finishes in about 15 seconds. (I have a
> 1.83Ghz processor).
> I'm not really concerned about performance, and i'm sure there's a better
> algorithm for solving this problem. But an equivalent algorithm in C
> finishes about 6 times faster.
> Is this what one should expect from Lua ?
> I'm also concerned about the style of my code. Is this making a good use of
> Lua ?
> I don't get the reflex of using the beautiful things it provides yet, like
> the generic for, multiple assignments, function as prime values, etc.
> How do you do that ? :D
> Victor
>



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Binh Nguyen
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, 12180
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