Lua is faster than Fortran???

[Luis M. González]

On Jul 4, 4:51 pm, Luis M. González <luis... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 12:30 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
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> > I was just looking at Debian's benchmarks. It seems LuaJIT is now (on
> > median) beating Intel Fortran!
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> > 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.
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> > LuaJIT also runs the benchmarks faster than Java 6 server, OCaml, and
> > SBCL.
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> > 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"?
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> > 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...
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> > Looking at median runtimes, here is what I got:
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> >    gcc               1.10
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> >    LuaJIT            1.96
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> >    Java 6 -server    2.13
> >    Intel Fortran     2.18
> >    OCaml             3.41
> >    SBCL              3.66
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> >    JavaScript V8     7.57
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> >    PyPy             31.5
> >    CPython          64.6
> >    Perl             67.2
> >    Ruby 1.9         71.1
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> > The only comfort for CPython is that Ruby and Perl did even worse.
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> 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!
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> 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