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- Subject: Re: Lua vs. Haskell (was Re: Bridging Lua to native C/C++ code automatically)
- From: herviou@...
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:54:28 +0200 (CEST)
> Hallo,
>
> On 8/29/06, Don Hopkins <dhopkins@donhopkins.com> wrote:
>>
>> Speed and memory usage of Lua -vs- SpiderMonkey:
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=javascript
>>
>
> I already knew that Lua is better (faster/leaner) than most
> languages out there, but I certainly didn't expect it to be beaten by
> haskell. But maybe is just prejudice against haskell syntax, since
> it's just compiled once before the execution of the test.
> Does anybody know why haskell is so better than Lua?
>
> --
> -alex
> http://www.ventonegro.org/
>
haskell is compiled it is not a byte code executed by a virtual machine. I
think this is enough to be beaten and also not to be compared with...
dh.