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LuaJIT makes the Lua mandelbrot program run 95 times faster than Ruby's, whereas the stock Lua interpreter is only 17 times faster. Better yet, LuaJIT is a dro
by palish 18y ago
LuaJIT makes the Lua mandelbrot program run 95 times faster than Ruby's, whereas the stock Lua interpreter is only 17 times faster.
Better yet, LuaJIT is a drop-in replacement. There's no reason not to use it, as far as I know.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoWell, LuaJIT only runs on x86, and only in 32-bit mode. Though, the work-in-progress LuaJIT 2 is supposed to be easily portable to ARM or other architectures.
- brianm 18y agoI love the "only 17 times faster" bit ;-)
- lliiffee 18y agoTry comparing ruby to c++!