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I must be jaded. There are so many languages that can present some benchmarks where they're in the same speed magnitude as cleverly optimized C with no obvious bugs.

The squid-graphs from the language shootout of a few days ago told me so much more about the languages.

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Right. Making everything about pure speed tends to favor languages for which you can always squeeze out another percentage of performance, yet ignores that the cost of doing so increases quite rapidly. (As it stands, Lua makes it very easy to move hotspots over to C.)

Lua scored pretty well in that shootout, IIRC.

disclaimer I've never even coded in Lua.

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