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- Subject: Re: Selenophobia
- From: "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <lua-l@...>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:19:36 +0700
> - Lua didn't "just do things" that other languages might. One that
> hit us was performance -- initial tests of the application showed it
> taking 50x as much time as the same app coded in C++. A few simple
> optimizations got it down to about 5x, which was acceptable. These
> were optimizations that any modern C/C++ compiler would do
> automatically.
That reminded me the case, when I wrote crypt_sha256 (or 512? Whatever) on Lua
(just for preactice), and it was 2x-5x faster than reference C/C++
implementation from the author of the document (Ulrich Drepper, AFAIRC) :)
