On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median) > beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very > similar to Python. I know it's "just a benchmark" but this has to count > as insanely impressive. Beating Intel Fortran with a dynamic scripting > language... How is that even possible? > > If this keeps up we'll need a Python to Lua compiler very soon. And > LuaJIT 2 is rumoured to be much faster than the current... > > Looking at median runtimes, here is what I got: > > gcc 1.10 > LuaJIT 1.96 > Java 6 -server 2.13 > Intel Fortran 2.18 > OCaml 3.41 > SBCL 3.66 > JavaScript V8 7.57 > > PyPy 31.5 > CPython 64.6 > Perl 67.2 > Ruby 1.9 71.1 > > This means that LuaJIT can do in less than a day what CPython can do in > a month. The only comfort for CPython is that Ruby and Perl did even worse. > > I wonder how much better CPython would do with NumPy on this benchmark? > > Sturla
Hi Sturla, what is this even about ... ? Do you have some references ? It does indeed sound interesting ... but what kind of code / problem are they actually testing here ? Thanks, Sebastian Haase _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
