Comment by megapoliss
1 day ago
Run some examples, and it looks like this "High-performance, real-time optimized, super-fast" language is
~ 10 times slower than luajit
~ 3 times slower than lua 5.4
1 day ago
Run some examples, and it looks like this "High-performance, real-time optimized, super-fast" language is
~ 10 times slower than luajit
~ 3 times slower than lua 5.4
Not bad for version 0.1.0. lua(jit) is no slowpoke and has had decades of performance improvements.
With this and https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/main/doc/Bolt%20Perfor..., it is indeed confusing without testing it out myself.
That said, somehow I do not believe it is faster than LuaJIT. We will see.
I used brainfuck interpreter https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/main/examples/bf.bolt vs lua / luajit implementations from https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
Just checked with nbody:
I appreciate the followup here. The brainfuck interpreter isn't meant to be a benchmark notably, it's a naive implementation for the sake of the example.
I did spot some poor code in the Bolt version of nbody that can be changed (the usage of `.each()` in the hot loop is creating loads of temporary iterators, that's the memory difference.)
luajit -joff does perform better even with this change, but I observe closer to 15% than a 2x difference
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Where do you get these numbers from? Looking at https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/main/doc/Bolt%20Perfor... doesn’t seem to support these numbers.
They at least clarified it by saying "outperforming other languages in its class". It's a slow class so the bar is low.