From: namekuseijin <namekuseijin@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T10:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Perofrmance

BTW, I think all scripting languages -- heck!, any high level language
indeed -- should be measured against Lua.  Its LuaJIT implementation
is astounding:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=luajit

despite being very high level, as dynamically typed and as concise as
ruby or python, it allow for almost C-like performance:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=luajit&lang2=gpp

It beats the crap out of java, specially in memory usage and code
size:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=luajit&lang2=java

no wonder its the favorite scripting language of the games industry...