Lua is faster than Fortran???

[Stefan Behnel]

sturlamolden, 04.07.2010 18:37:
> On 4 Jul, 09:12, Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the Unladen Swallow version of Python
>> does by comparison?
>
> Judging from their PyCon slides, it's roughly 1.5 times faster than
> CPython.

A number like "1.5 times faster" is meaningless without a specific 
application and/or code section in mind. I'm pretty sure there are cases 
where they are much faster than that, and there are cases where the net 
gain is zero (or -0.x or whatever).

Stefan