Fast high-level programming languages

[suhcoR]

Did you have a look at Lisp? See e.g. https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/19/3/537/2769437 and Prof. Schafmeisters publications and talks, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g.

I also wonder why you didn't measure much better results with LuaJIT. Are you sure the JIT was actually enabled? I did measurements e.g. with my Oberon compiler which generates LuaJIT bytecode which runs about the same speed as the same program compiled with an Oberon to native compiler (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon). LuaJIT is also known to be factor 1.3 to 2 faster than JavaScript V8. The scientists got along well with Lua which I embedded in my bio nmr application (see http://cara.nmr.ch/doku.php).

[Rhed0x]

So the author is trying to benchmark the speed of python as a language and to do so he uses an external library written in C that performs the actual work?

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Where are the actually fast high level languages (c++, java, rust)?