Lua ÷ Perl | Gentoo : Intel® Pentium® 4 Computer Language Benchmarks Game

Compare the performance of Lua programs against some other language implementation.

For more information about the Lua implementation we measured see ↓ about Lua.

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Lua comparison summary

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Program & Logs	CPU secs	Memory KB	Size B
recursive
Lua	114.38	2,280	330
Perl #2	898.78	10,836	380
spectral-norm
Lua #3	727.88	1,100	328
Perl #2	4,089.08	2,468	334
mandelbrot
Lua #2	83.21	864	367
Perl #2	403.20	1,724	311
fasta
Lua #2	213.66	904	993
Perl #4	950.04	1,872	934
n-body
Lua #2	586.85	872	1265
Perl	1,697.59	1,936	1140
partial-sums
Lua #2	7.45	900	437
Perl #3	17.41	1,476	389
nsieve
Lua #3	10.93	99,276	258
Perl #2	25.45	121,904	290
fannkuch
Lua #3	508.06	864	469
Perl	855.72	1,492	348
nsieve-bits
Lua	99.67	7,120	426
Perl	100.18	4,004	253
k-nucleotide
Lua #2	35.43	38,248	613
Perl #2	32.07	42,816	359
sum-file
Lua	21.84	840	82
Perl	18.17	1,468	84
reverse-complement
Lua	8.85	43,000	538
Perl #2	1.99	38,360	298
pidigits
Lua #2	41.43	1,148	1005
Perl #2	3.61	2,532	385