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palish
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Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" lan...
LuaJIT makes the Lua
mandelbrot
program run 95 times faster than Ruby's, whereas the stock Lua interpreter is only 17 times faster.
Better yet, LuaJIT is a drop-in replacement. There's no reason not to use it, as far as I know.
LogicHoleFlaw
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Well, LuaJIT only runs on x86, and only in 32-bit mode. Though, the work-in-progress LuaJIT 2 is supposed to be easily portable to ARM or other architectures.
brianm
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I love the "only 17 times faster" bit ;-)
lliiffee
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Try comparing ruby to c++!
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Better yet, LuaJIT is a drop-in replacement. There's no reason not to use it, as far as I know.