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by bakery2k 9y ago
Looking at the LuaJIT changelog [1], it's interesting how many bugs need fixing in each version: 20 in 2.0.5 and 32 in 2.0.4. Compare this with PUC Lua [2], which seems to have very few bugs: only 4 in 5.3.3 and 3 in 5.3.2. LuaJIT and
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Ask HN: Which Amazon S3 region should I use if latency is not a consideration?
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Have tracing JIT compilers won? (2010)(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Doesn't that also use a JIT? YARV? No. YARV is the current official Ruby interpreter - it replaced MRI in this role from Ruby 1.9 onwards.
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by bakery2k 10y ago
You're talking about Ruby MRI? Not the original MRI, but YARV. For this particular program, the performance of different language interpreters is: MRI (Ruby 1.8) < CPython 3.5 < CPython 2.7, PUC Lua 5.1/5.3 < YARV (Ruby
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by bakery2k 10y ago
In the last year bugs have been fixed almost instantly That's good to hear. Perhaps LuaJIT isn't "unsupported", but it does seem to be "in maintenance mode". I would love to see, not just bug fixes to LuaJIT,
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by bakery2k 10y ago
In my experience (doing some fairly heavy computation in nested loops), PUC Lua is faster than Python but slower than recent versions of Ruby. LuaJIT is at least 10x faster than all three.
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Ask HN: Which language for interacting with AWS?
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3 new programming languages: What their creators say(infoworld.com)
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Total pip packages downloaded, separated by Python versions (June – August 2016)(gist.github.com)
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[Python-Dev] PEP 526 Ready: Syntax for Variable and Attribute Annotations(mail.python.org)
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by bakery2k 10y ago
I actually wrote a Julia version at the time, but it was difficult to accurately benchmark because the total runtime was significantly affected by a long (~5 seconds) delay at startup. Recently, however, I came across https://www
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by bakery2k 10y ago
An example of how, for certain types of code, more than an order-of-magnitude performance improvement can be obtained with a good JIT compiler. I wrote a decompression routine (for a simple compression format) in several languages - it took
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Python Changes 2014+ by Mark Lutz (author, Learning Python and Programming Python)(learning-python.com)
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MicroPython: a journey from Kickstarter to Space(youtube.com)
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Where can we voice our opposition to this? https://github.com/python/typing/issues/258
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Proposal: variable declaration syntax for Python(github.com)
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Ask HN: What would you consider an acceptable size for a command-line utility?
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by bakery2k 10y ago
I considered using one of these libraries and writing the Qt GUI for my application in Python rather than C++. However, I would like to build the application into a standalone binary for end-users to run on their own systems. This seems to
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Thanks for your reply. What little C++ experience I have is from several years ago - do you think (again, purely in the context of Qt) that any of the new C++11 features are worth using or should I stick to C++98?
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Ask HN: Which parts of C++ do I need to learn in order to use Qt?
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Docker, for example, say "seriously just don't use it". http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/docker-and-go-why-did-we-...
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by bakery2k 10y ago
To clarify, I'm not necessarily looking for something "extremely popular". I was using the fact that so many people consider Python to be their favorite language as a proxy for the high quality of the language design. Perhaps
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by bakery2k 10y ago
> flag's capabilities are so limited It's a shame Go's flag package is so poor. Even Docker, who seem to be hugely invested in Go, say "seriously just don't use it". [1] [1] http://www.slideshar
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by bakery2k 10y ago
It seems to me that Go has very useful runtime features (speed, concurrency & parallelism, easy deployment) but the language has significant drawbacks, including those listed in this article. The Python runtime is relatively poor (s
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by bakery2k 10y ago
These rules are essentially a simplification (`global` keyword removed) of those used in Python 3. They may be the simplest rules possible without requiring variable declarations, but they have a couple of problems: 1. A typo on the LHS of
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Designing Sane Scoping Rules(tratt.net)
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Interesting that hajile and you both dislike global-by-default, but your proposed alternatives are essentially opposites. hajile would prefer local-by-default and fewer declarations, and you would prefer nothing-by-default and more declarat
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Presumably the author of Squirrel agrees with (one of) the authors of Lua: "Local by default is wrong" [1]. "The problem is that without local declarations, you cannot say where the variable is local to" [2]. Take Python
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by bakery2k 10y ago
Part of the problem with Python is (that Lua doesn't share) is that things you use all the time can potentially shift between two loop iterations Why is this problem not shared by Lua? Does Lua somehow prevent "process_file&quot

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