Compare the performance of Lua programs against some other language implementation, or check the Lua Time and Memory measurements.
For more information about the Lua implementation we measured see ↓ about Lua.
The Lua programs compared [smaller is better]
| Lua / Perl [smaller is better] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program & Logs | Time | Memory Use | Source Size | Reduced N |
| binary-trees | ||||
| chameneos-redux | ||||
| regex-dna | ||||
| recursive | 1/8 | 1/5 | 1/1 | |
| spectral-norm | 1/6 | 1/2 | 1/1 | |
| mandelbrot | 1/5 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| fasta | 1/4 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| n-body | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| partial-sums | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| nsieve | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| fannkuch | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | |
| nsieve-bits | - | 2 | 2 | |
| k-nucleotide | 1 | 1/1 | 2 | |
| sum-file | 1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | |
| reverse-complement | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| pidigits | 11 | 1/2 | 3 | |
about Lua
online book "Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy
"the evolution of Lua" (pdf slides)
Lua 5.1.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
Home Page: http://www.lua.org/
Download: http://www.lua.org/download.html
