Re: Visualising comparative programming language performance

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:43:27 +0200
steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Jerome
> Vuarand<jerome.vuarand@gmail.com>
> > 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.
> 
> So what are the rules? You have to use a stock distribution, and
> whatever C libraries ship with that?  So (say) there was a Lua
> distribution that came with TinyC (name of package escapes me), that
> would be game as well, with inlined C?

The rules are not concrete, but are judged on spirit.  You can have
common libraries installed on request.  
-- 
B.