Re: LuaJIT 2 performance page

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 13:07, Mike Pall <mikelu-1012@mike.de> wrote:
>
> But naturally LuaJIT has to catch up on many other benchmarks
> (just consider ~3 man-years vs. hundreds). I've looked at a lot of
> generated machine code in the past years and I'm fairly certain
> that GCC is the performance leader in general.
>

LuaJIT track record is very impressive, and 3 Mike_Pall_years
certainly count more than an average 3 man_years.

In not so distant past JVM was a no-starter for heavy numerics due to
its performance issues, like boxing/unboxing each value and so on. It
is surprising to see that now it rivals native C-code. Cool modern
language like Scala targeting JVM could potentially give LuaJIT run
for its money.

--Leo--