Re: Visualising comparative programming language performance

[Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2009/6/2 Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk>:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:28:04 +0100
> Pavel Kobel <pkobel@boo.st> wrote:
>
>> Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > I adapted Mike Pall's mandelbrot implementation to be (very) crudely
>> > multi-process, ....
>>
>> Very wonderful. Thank you for hard work.
>>
>> So io.popen() is not elegant? I am not so familiar of other
>> programming languages.
>>
>> Which language has most elegant parallel syntax? Can that graft
>> to Lua easily?
>
> A more elegant solution would be to use fork() or threads, but I felt
> it was within the spirit of the game to not resort to C code, given
> we're meant to be measuring Lua, not C.

Given how most of these comparative benchmarks implementation use and
abuse of C libraries (often for the reason that they are shipped with
the interpreter), I don't think the spirit of that game is to use pure
Lua.