From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-02-02T00:59:56+09:00 Subject: Re: For performance, use Lua ------=_Part_7237_1444688.1170345593509 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 2/1/07, Andy Lester wrote: > > > Now that's just pushing it. Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, Squirrel, are all > > WRITTEN in C, but they don't run at C speeds. There's still the > > interpretation overhead... > > > > And Andy? you're also pushing it. Compiled into machine code vs > > compiled > > into an interpreted byte code. You know what is being talked about > > here. > > Wow, so angry. > > -- > Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance Which is a pitty because it is very reasonable to give a second thought to "compiled language" also I think that it is completely clear what you mean Jason it is completely clear to me what Andy means. Compiled to what? Now I am pushing it, but parsing into an AST and than interpreting it is not considered as compilation, *right now*. And if tomorrow the AST interpreter includes JIT? Cheers Robert -- We have not succeeded in answering all of our questions. In fact, in some ways, we are more confused than ever. But we feel we are confused on a higher level and about more important things. -Anonymous ------=_Part_7237_1444688.1170345593509--