Lua is faster than Fortran???

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Saturday 03 July 2010 20:30:30 sturlamolden wrote:
> I was just looking at Debian's benchmarks. It seems LuaJIT is now (on
> median) beating Intel Fortran! 

That's amazing! Congrats to the Lua team!

> 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:
 [snip]
> The only comfort for CPython is that Ruby and Perl did even worse.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the Unladen Swallow version of Python 
does by comparison?

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