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Also lua right now has the one of the best JIT's out there (luajit). The guy behind the project is simply genius. Really good stuff. And also kept small. It's x

by malkia 17y ago

Also lua right now has the one of the best JIT's out there (luajit). The guy behind the project is simply genius. Really good stuff. And also kept small. It's x2-x3 faster than V8 on specific benchmarks that I've did (mainly dealing with 3d model meshes and modifying them). It's only for x86 right now, but he's working on x64 port.

silentbicycle 17y ago
LuaJIT is really impressive, but honestly, the stock interpreter is fast enough for me in general, and I'm fine with just moving hotspots to C as needed. I'm more impressed with how concise Lua is. I've got the Lua 5.1 Reference Manual sitting in front of me. It's 103 pages for the whole language (roughly half of which is the C API), the entire syntax fits on page 95, etc. I can keep it all in my mental L1 cache, so to speak. Yet, it's expressive enough to have displaced Python as my go-to language. It's not perfect, but I'm very happy with the trade-offs it makes. I'll be psyched once it's ported to a couple more hardware platforms, though.