Re: Using Lua in programming contests

["Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>]

January 5, 2017 7:51 PM, "Roberto Ierusalimschy" <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Maybe Lua should have 13 seconds timeout to make the competition honest?
> 
> The numbers you gave were these:
> 
> 2 C, Pascal
> 3 Brainf**k, C#, COBOL, D, PyPy
> 4 F#, Go, Java
> 5 Fortran, Haskell, Smalltalk, Tcl, VB.NET
> 7 Scala
> 8 Clojure
> 9 Perl, PHP
> 10 Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Ruby
> 12 Common Lisp, Erlang, Lua 5.2
> 
> The whole table seems quite arbitrary. Fortran is equivalent to
> Smalltalk and Tcl? Lua is slower than PHP? Brainfuck is faster than
> [whatever]?

Lua is so low because the algorithm needs 64 bit precision
and it is Lua 5.2. They should not give more time to Lua,
they should just update to 5.3.

-- 
Pierre Chapuis