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The 20-50x performance tradeoff is a hard pill to swallow though. I'd love to see a better performing dynamic language that isn't as minimal as Lua.
by alayne 13y ago
The 20-50x performance tradeoff is a hard pill to swallow though. I'd love to see a better performing dynamic language that isn't as minimal as Lua.
- venomsnake 13y agoIs that really the case in real world loads? I have always thought that the moment you avoid blocking io and code almost any language is fast enough. And usually the problems come from bad design.
- rsynnott 13y agoWell, it very much depends what you're doing. Obviously, if you are doing something CPU-bound, code speed is pretty important. Not sure what blocking IO has to do with it one way or the other. Are you thinking specifically of webapps, maybe?
- PuercoPop 13y agoIt is called Common Lisp
- anonymoushn 13y agoI've come to think of it as a plus that the entire semantics of a language can fit in working memory. What features do you find to be missing from languages like Lua and Scheme?