On Jul 4, 4:51 pm, Luis M. González <luis...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 4, 12:30 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: > > > > > > > I was just looking at Debian's benchmarks. It seems LuaJIT is now (on > > median) beating Intel Fortran! > > > C (gcc) is running the benchmarks faster by less than a factor of two. > > Consider that Lua is a dynamically typed scripting language very > > similar to Python. > > > LuaJIT also runs the benchmarks faster than Java 6 server, OCaml, and > > SBCL. > > > 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? And what about all those arguments that > > dynamic languages "have to be slow"? > > > If this keeps up we'll need a Python to Lua bytecode 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 > > > The only comfort for CPython is that Ruby and Perl did even worse. > > You should read this thread:http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851 > There, you'll see this subject discussed and explained at length. > Pay special attention to Mike Pall's comments (he is the creator of > Luajit) and his opinion about python and pypy. > You will read also about other projects, specially new javascript > engines such as Mozila's Tracemonkey (the authors participate in this > thread) and the pypy folks. > It is a very good read for anyone interested in the subject. Very > recommended! > Good luck! > > Luis
To be more specific, check these comments on the above the above suggested thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57804 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57700 Luis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list