It is interesting to note that a beautiful python program from the "interesting alternative" category [1] beats the C program, and LuaJIT is always impressive [

It is interesting to note that a beautiful python program from the "interesting alternative" category [1] beats the C program, and LuaJIT is always impressive [2] on these sorts of microbenchmarks (beating SBCL, with one third the source code). [1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=python3&id=2 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spect... [2] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=luajit&id=1 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spect...