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Most of them are slower. Luajit is the only dynamic language runtime that's faster than V8, at least at prime number crunching. I haven't tested elisp but the o
by petre 9y ago
Most of them are slower. Luajit is the only dynamic language runtime that's faster than V8, at least at prime number crunching. I haven't tested elisp but the others (Perl, Ruby etc.) are an order of magnitude slower.
- flavio81 9y ago>Luajit is the only dynamic language runtime that's faster than V8, Also Common Lisp (much faster than V8), Forth, and probably some Scheme implementations.
- nine_k 9y agoTo pick nits: Forth is not "dynamic"; words are called by their direct addresses, without any hashtable lookup. It's a stark contrast with Python, Ruby, JS, etc.
- klibertp 9y agoTo be fair, with CREATE/DOES> you can make them do any lookup you want easily. Well, as easy as anything in Forth.