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As an aside, this seems to use the Benchmark Games for their testing, which has seen a lot of criticism for the exercises being more or less 1:1 ported, rather
by pull_my_finger 6y ago
As an aside, this seems to use the Benchmark Games for their testing, which has seen a lot of criticism for the exercises being more or less 1:1 ported, rather than writing them idiomatically or efficiently in the different languages. Lua, in particular, gets dogged out and doesn't even offer LuaJIT as an option.
- ufo 6y agoThe Lua benchmarks are a bit funny because many of them were tuned for LuaJIT, including tricks such as eval-based metaprogramming which work well in a JIT.
- igouy 6y agoAnd yet, here we have someone complaining "… they didn’t implement them the same way." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819884