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- Subject: BASIC-like Lua variant
- From: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:06:35 -0600
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Joseph Manning <manning@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:
On 2014-Jan-16 (Thu) at 06:44 (-0600), Andrew Starks wrote:
>> Lua seemed like stupid, slow C to him then. Now, a good day involves
>> deleting hundreds of line of C and replacing it with Lua. The line count is
>> usually about a third.
Andrew,
Perhaps drifting somewhat OT regarding BASIC, but doing line-counts
for text-based file managers gave the following [1] :
Name Language Files Lines
---- -------- ----- ------
FDclone C 102 94,586
Midnight Commander C 325 92,228
vfu C 56 14,948
ytree C 58 13,970
vifm C 40 9,010
CFM Lua 1 718
CFM, written in Lua, has 14 times fewer lines than the next smallest,
and 132 times fewer lines than the largest.
Granted, it's a bit apples-and-oranges here, as CFM lacks many of the
( rarely-used? ) features of some of the others, but it does manage
to provide all(?) the core functionality expected in a file manager.
[1] http://www.lua.org/wshop13.html#Manning
Joseph
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Joseph Manning / Computer Science / UCC Cork Ireland / manning@cs.ucc.ie
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In our case, a re-imagining of the architecture is also taking place.
This is the reason that speed comparison are useless. In our case, lua is infinity faster than c++, because we lack the army of engineers required to make the comprehensible and stable version of what we've been able to accomplish so far, using the former.
I shouldn't have mentioned the lines of code statistic, in my anecdote. Your study looks more believable.
-Andrew
