4 ms·

wow, so much faster than lua

• kingkilr 13y ago
  You can't compare measurements taken on different computers, for all you know the OP has a potato and I have a speed demon toaster.
  • mistercow 13y ago
    Don't knock potatoes. I do all of my hardcore data analysis on my Very Large Potato Array.
• dagw 13y ago
  They probably don't have the same hardware. On the same hardware I get: lua 5.1.5: ~480 ms python 2.7.5: ~330 ms luajit 2.0.2: ~190 ms pypy 2.0.2: ~140ms
• Zash 13y ago
  Same programs, same computer: ~$ time python t.py . real 0m0.350s user 0m0.304s sys 0m0.024s ~$ time lua t.lua . real 0m0.255s user 0m0.248s sys 0m0.004s ~$ time luajit t.lua . real 0m0.157s user 0m0.144s sys 0m0.012s
  • dagw 13y ago
    Which versions of lua and python? Because when I ran the programs python was faster than lua.
    • Zash 13y ago
      Python 2.7.3, Lua 5.1.5, LuaJIT 2.0.2 on Linux 3.2.0, Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS on a 2.53GHz i3 (64bit)
• haberman 13y ago
  I unfortunately had to edit the program after I took the measurements because HN cut off my program horizontally. So I removed one or two letters from the list.