Re: How fast is LuaJIT supposed to be?

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

Ah, a sieve of eratosthenes (there are various ways to get primes). I
suppose you will find a considerable perfomance increase (native and
jit) if you use "candidate" as a local variable you pass as argument
and return value to find_next_candidate() instead of storing it as
"candidate" key in the prime array.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2011 01:52:40 Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:47, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> > A few weeks ago I wrote a Lua prime number generator. Today, to test Lua
>> > 5.1.4 vs LuaJIT 1.1.6 I ran the prime numbers between 1 and 50 million,
>> > writing all numbers to /dev/null to minimize I/O time. Lua took typically
>> > around 48 seconds and LuaJIT took around 34 seconds. Is this typical of a
>> > CPU/memory bound process?
>>
>> Why do you try LJ 1.1.6? Try LuaJIT 2! :-)
>
> Is it significantly faster than 1.1.6? I just took the stable one.
>
>>
>> Also, you may want to show us the benchmark code.
>
> Attached. Please don't laugh too hard -- I'd had about 3 days of Lua
> experience when I wrote it. Writing that program so easily and having it run
> so quickly was one of the things that made me decide to look more deeply into
> Lua.
>
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>
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> function mark_multiples(primes)
>        local multiple=primes["candidate"]
>        while multiple <= primes["upto"] do
>                multiple = multiple + primes["candidate"]
>                -- print(string.format("dia multiple=%d", multiple))
>                primes[multiple] = 0
>        end
> end
>
>
> function find_next_candidate(primes)
>        primes["candidate"] = primes["candidate"] + 1
>        while primes[primes["candidate"]] == 0 do
>                primes["candidate"] = primes["candidate"] + 1
>        end
>
> end
>
>
> function print_primes(primes)
>        for i=1, primearray["upto"] do
>                if primearray[i] == 1 then
>                        print(i)
>                end
>        end
> end
>
>
> function print_array(primes)
>        for i=1, primearray["upto"] do
>                print(string.format("%d     %d", i, primearray[i]))
>        end
> end
>
>
> function mark_all_as_prime(primes)
>        for i=1, primearray["upto"] do primearray[i]=1 end
> end
>
>
> function main()
>        primearray={
>                upto=arg[1] + 0,
>                candidate=2,
>                maxcandidate=math.sqrt(arg[1])
>        }
>
>        mark_all_as_prime(primes)
>
>        while primearray["maxcandidate"] > primearray["candidate"] do
>                mark_multiples(primearray)
>                find_next_candidate(primearray)
>        end
>
>        print_primes(primearray)
>        -- print_array(primearray)
> end
>
> main()
>