Re: [Numpy-discussion] [OT] Re: debian benchmarks

2010-07-04 Thread Isaac Gouy
Pauli Virtanen iki.fi> writes: -snip- > It's possible that in the cases where Lua wins, the Lua code is not > completely equivalent to the Fortran code, or uses stuff such as strings > for which Lua's default implementation may be efficient. Note - not "Lua's default implementation" but LuaJIT

[Numpy-discussion] [OT] Re: debian benchmarks

2010-07-04 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:32:14 +0200, Sturla Molden 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. I gu