Re: High-level language continuum (was: Ok, ok, there are no bugs ... :o) )

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> > So my question is,
> > has the speed of Lua been really characterized in a tangible way?
>
> Have a look at http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/

Maybe this would be worth putting on lua.org somewhere?
Here's another that compares Lua, C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Python:

http://tmb.voxel.net/squeak-bench/

Steve