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On 19/12/2012 22.57, Dirk Laurie wrote:
I replaced the line
sum = sum + j + v
by
sum = tostring(v):upper()
and the time jumps to about 15 seconds. On LuaJIT it jumped
from 0.3 to to 136 seconds. I could have got myself a mug of
coffee. Bye-bye to the conventional wisdom that LuaJIT is
faster than PUC-Rio!
I see your point, but probably that's not a very significant example: I think you're actually timing allocations and string hashing.
-- Enrico