Lua is faster than Fortran???

[Luis M. González]

On Jul 4, 5:58 pm, John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:

>     TheUnladenSwallowpeople should in theory be able to reach
> that level of performance.  (Both groups are employed at Google.
> So their effectiveness will be compared.)
>
>                                 John Nagle

No. Collin Winter said that they will never be as fast as Chrome's V8
or similar JS engines,
since they were created from scratch to be super fast above all else.
On the other hand, US is a project to enhance an existing interpreter,
carrying a lot of the burden of early design decisions.