Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-21 Thread François PERRAD
At 11:40 19/09/2007 -0700, chromatic wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:58:56 François PERRAD wrote: Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Two tests fail reliably for me on x86 GNU/Linux, and one fails now and

Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Pall
Hi, François Perrad wrote: I'm interested by the source of yours benchmarks, for me, it's more test case. These are the Lua benchmarks I've written for the shootout. You're already using these in your testcases. :-) SciMark for Lua is at: http://luajit.org/download/scimark-2007-09-19.lua

Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-20 Thread François PERRAD
At 12:00 20/09/2007 -0300, you wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:26:52 +0200 From: Mike Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16 To: Lua list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, Fran?ois PERRAD wrote: Any

Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-20 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 20 September 2007 11:20:45 François PERRAD wrote: Umm, before I make a fool of myself over there ... I've tested this with a few benchmarks. So, maybe I'm missing something essential, but why does --jit-core *slow down* things (5%-10% slower than --computed-goto-core)? JIT's much

Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua Isom
For x86, you can also combine different runcores. If you try -Cj it might run even faster. What type of program were you running to get that slowdown? When I got the amd64 jit to the bare bones state, I got a 10% increase in speed. If Lua's parrot implementation allows you to turn the

[ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-19 Thread François PERRAD
Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see http://www.parrotcode.org/). Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.4.16. A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 is now available : - an Lua

[ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-19 Thread François PERRAD
Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see http://www.parrotcode.org/). Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.4.16. A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 is now available : - an Lua

Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16

2007-09-19 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:58:56 François PERRAD wrote: Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Two tests fail reliably for me on x86 GNU/Linux, and one fails now and then: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail