[luatex] slower texlua at LuaTeX 1.0.4 (TL 2017) ?
Patrick Gundlach
patrick at gundla.ch
Sun Jun 4 20:34:12 CEST 2017
> Am 04.06.2017 um 13:26 schrieb Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie at gmail.com>:
>
> 2017-06-03 22:11 GMT+02:00 Patrick Gundlach <patrick at gundla.ch>:
>
>>> a sample lua script runs twice slower with texlua of TL2017
>>> than with the texlua from TL2016 and bare lua 5.3.3 I also
>>> have on my mac os x 10.9.5
>>
>>
>> I am not sure if this is still relevant (I haven't followed the whole discussion). Anyway: on my system (latest Mac Laptop with up to date software) I have the same results with tl2017 and tl2016 (minor differences of course):
>>
>>
>> $ time texlua collatz.lua
>>
>> real 0m14.837s
>> user 0m14.552s
>> sys 0m0.106s
>>
>> $ time texluajit collatz.lua
>>
>> real 0m10.231s
>> user 0m10.205s
>> sys 0m0.012s
>
> I don't think it is a fair or even relevant test of texlua to use it on
> a CPU-intensive job involving no string processing whatsover,
> especially one that is easy and natural to do directly in C.
...
I don't understand your comment, could you elaborate?
I just wanted to state that tl2016 and tl2017 have the same processing time, with and without jit.
Patrick
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