Lua is faster than Fortran???

[sturlamolden]

On 9 Jul, 15:25, Felix <schle... at cshl.edu> wrote:

> PS: No need to convince me that MATLAB is not the solution.

What I mean is that Matlab and Mathematica are inherently "single
threaded" interpreters. Yet they are still used for serious parallel
computing. While Python has multiple threads but a GIL, only allowing
one thread in the interpreter is even more restrictive.