Re: Drawing the line between speed and simplicity/elegance

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Using the C API will make LuaJIT's performance bottom out. If you're
>> worried about performance across VMs, stick to pure Lua.
>
> That is not a valid advice across VMs. C code is much faster than
> (non-JIT) Lua code. So, not using the C API will hurt Lua performance.
>
> -- Roberto
>

But Lua also has some overhead with calling into C, doesn't it? So
some common operations are faster in pure Lua than in C? I'm sure I've
heard that.

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