Re: Lua is faster than Java?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Adam D. Moss wrote:

> Chris Marrin wrote:
>
> > My group is using Lua in a 3D graphics application. We recently did 
> > tests where we could perform operations on a 3D mesh of 120x120 points 
> > (14,000 points) at 60 Hz. We had previously done the same thing in 
> > Javascript and could barely do 150 points at that rate. That's 2 
> > orders of magnitude better!
> >
> > For us the issue is not whether or not Lua is faster or slower than Java.
>
>
> I couldn't let this just pass, though: JavaScript is by no
> means related to Java, short of the former being very vaguely
> 'inspired' by the latter at one point in marketing history.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. I am not someone who has a hot button 
for that tragic naming mistake, but I am sensitive to those who do. I 
was really just comparing Lua to Javascript!

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chris marrin
"As a general rule,don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell"'