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 1 : Are the Lua programs faster? At a glance.

Each chart bar shows, for one unidentified benchmark, how much the fastest Lua program used compared to the fastest Python 3 program.

These are not the only compilers and interpreters. These are not the only programs that could be written. These are not the only tasks that could be solved. These are just 10 tiny examples.

 2 : Are the Lua programs faster? Approximately.

Each table row shows, for one named benchmark, how much the fastest Lua program used compared to the fastest Python 3 program.

Lua used what fraction? used how many times more?
Benchmark	Time	Memory	Code
fasta	1/5	1/4	±
spectral-norm	1/4	1/6	±
mandelbrot	1/3	1/6	1/2
n-body	1/2	1/6	±
k-nucleotide	1/2	2×	±
fannkuch-redux	1/2	1/6	±
pidigits	±	1/4	2×
binary-trees	±	2×	±
regex-dna	2×	3×	±
reverse-complement	3×	±	2×

Lua used what fraction? used how many times more?
Time-used	|-	|---	25%	median	75%	---|	-|
(Elapsed secs)	1/5	1/5	1/3	1/2	±	2×	3×

± read the measurements and then read the program source code.

 3 : Are the Lua programs faster? Measurements.

These are not the only tasks that could be solved. These are just 10 tiny examples. These are not the only compilers and interpreters. These are not the only programs that could be written.

For each named benchmark, measurements of the fastest Lua program are shown for comparison against measurements of the fastest Python 3 program.

Program Source Code	CPU secs	Elapsed secs	Memory KB	Code B	≈ CPU Load
fasta
Lua	49.71	49.72	1,112	1049	0% 1% 0% 100%
Python 3	259.48	262.34	4,672	788	0% 1% 1% 100%
spectral-norm
Lua	243.58	243.64	940	329	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	1,018.20	1,018.44	5,208	328	0% 0% 0% 100%
mandelbrot
Lua	786.43	786.61	1,044	353	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	1,845.31	1,968.40	6,748	777	1% 0% 0% 100%
n-body
Lua	461.37	461.47	836	1193	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	1,098.65	1,098.89	4,700	1181	0% 0% 0% 100%
k-nucleotide
Lua	220.11	220.81	707,928	613	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	474.71	474.95	426,212	647	1% 0% 0% 100%
fannkuch-redux
Lua	2,131.11	2,131.55	820	462	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	2,903.20	3,204.31	4,564	385	0% 0% 0% 100%
pidigits
Lua	2.51	2.52	1,460	479	0% 1% 1% 100%
Python 3	3.06	3.06	5,408	255	1% 0% 1% 100%
binary-trees
Lua	449.99	450.48	1,033,624	446	0% 14% 4% 100%
Python 3	504.56	504.93	685,724	626	0% 0% 0% 100%
regex-dna
Lua	43.90	43.94	494,992	437	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	21.13	21.14	194,612	424	0% 0% 0% 100%
reverse-complement
Lua	22.49	22.51	724,576	555	0% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	6.50	6.51	616,588	325	0% 0% 0% 100%
fasta-redux
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 4 : Are there other Lua programs for these benchmarks?

Remember - those are just the fastest Lua and Python 3 programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are other implementations of these benchmark programs for Lua.

Ada 2005 GNAT ATS C CINT C gcc Clojure C# Mono C++ g++ Dart Erlang HiPE F# Mono Fortran Intel Go Haskell GHC Java 7 JavaScript V8 Lisp SBCL Lua OCaml Pascal Free Pascal Perl PHP Python 3 Racket Ruby 2.0 Ruby JRuby Scala Smalltalk VisualWorks

Maybe one of those other Lua programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

 5 : Are there other faster programs for these benchmarks?

Remember - those are just the fastest Lua and Python 3 programs measured on this OS/machine. Check if there are faster implementations of these benchmark programs for other programming languages.

n-body fannkuch-redux meteor-contest fasta fasta-redux spectral-norm reverse-complement mandelbrot k-nucleotide regex-dna pidigits chameneos-redux thread-ring binary-trees-redux binary-trees

Maybe one of those other programs is fastest on a different OS/machine.

 Lua : associative arrays for extensible embedded scripting 

online book "Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy

"Game Developers Conference 2010 Lua Tutorial" (slides)

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