Comment by Rochus
1 year ago
Thanks. I calculated the geomean of the speed-up factors based on the average results (cpu secs) per benchmark. Overall, Lua 5.4.6 is factor 5.1 slower than V8 v23. Only in k-nucleotide Lua is slightly faster than V8, but in n-body Lua is even factor 26 slower.
Btw. it seems notable that Lua 5.4.6 is about 40% slower than Lua 5.4.1, see http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_Lua_results....
Mind you its a bit unfair to compare nodejs with lua, a better example is luajit.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518508. LuaJIT was about factor two slower than the V8 in 2020.
Of course, it doesn't have millions of dollars thrown at it.
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