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LuaJIT faster I find it interesting that after all these year of little development on LuaJIT, and active development in Julia - that LuaJIT is still faster (w
by tiffanyh 2y ago
LuaJIT faster
I find it interesting that after all these year of little development on LuaJIT, and active development in Julia - that LuaJIT is still faster (while also being general purpose).
https://julialang.org/benchmarks/ https://julialang.org/benchmarks/
- slwvx 2y agoI find it interesting that after all these years of HN, commenters still ignore the main topic of the OP (a calculus book) to focus on the language it's written in
- dang 2y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- patagurbon 2y agoLuaJIT is only appreciably faster on text ingestion and printing in those benchmarks. Julia is also plenty general purpose, just targeted (initially at least) towards the numerical community. LuaJIT is fantastically impressive though.
- gc9 2y agoNote that "The benchmark data shown above were computed with Julia v1.0.0" (2018)
- dang 2y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- neonsunset 2y agoNow they need to include .NET and System.Numerics.Tensors but that would make a lot of popular options look bad :) (particularly go which has no business being used in this area)