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Lua 5.2 has been feature complete on Parrot for years. Like LLVM and the JVM, we'll keep tuning and improving and fixing bugs and adding features to make langu
by chromatic 16y ago
Lua 5.2 has been feature complete on Parrot for years. Like LLVM and the JVM, we'll keep tuning and improving and fixing bugs and adding features to make language implementation easier, but the correlation between "maturity" and "use" is strong.
- avar 16y agoThat's interesting. Are there any recent benchmarks of Lua on Parrot v.s. LuaJIT? The only thing I could find was this from 2007 where it was ~2 orders of magnitude slower: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/2007/09/msg40359.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/2007/09/... The URL to the benchmark script was broken so I couldn't run it. Don't get me wrong, I think Parrot's very neat. But I could see why compiler implementors would be sceptical of it since it's not feature complete, and seemingly not very optimized. So there's a lot of unknowns.