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"Current [Pawn] version: 4.0.4733 (2012-06-22)" Lua and LuaJIT are updated fairly regularly and target the same "fast, embeddable, typeless, bytecode-compiled

• blacksqr 11y ago
  Pawn faster. http://codeplea.com/game-scripting-languages http://codeplea.com/game-scripting-languages
  • boardwaalk 11y ago
    It doesn't look like that tested LuaJIT. The JIT part or the faster interpreter.
    • chipsy 11y ago
      Assuming apples-to-apples JIT technology, Pawn would still be faster because it's a barebones coding environment. Its semantics are roughly similar to C, but with even fewer features. The only definite way to outdo that is with something like Terra[0] where the program has meta-level control over its own compilation and execution. [0] http://terralang.org/ http://terralang.org/
• jonathonf 11y ago
  Be careful of getting drawn in to "newer is better".
  • otoburb 11y ago
    You're right - newer is not necessarily better. But active development and recent releases are usually a good proxy for at least a chance of further improvements.
  • DasIch 11y ago
    Newer might not be but maintained and popular definitely is.