Lua's (unfair) Grand Digital Computer Race Entry
Channel: Hanno Behrens
Date: 2018-03-10

Recently came across The National Museum of Computing's video on the Grand Digital Computer Race and thought I should give it a go on Lua, on my AMD FX6300 @ around 3.5-4 GHz.

Computer Museum's video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5CBU25V-uA
TIM's Entry here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MslE5wWSiA&feature=youtu.be&list=PL326906A34D444237

This is the number of results calculated by the other machines: 
3: WITCH
4: I Phone with Siri
7: Facit Calculator
16: PDP-8
38: Apple II
70: BBC Micro
1477: Windows 95 on a PC
6843: BBC Micro:Bit

LuaJIT 2.1 on my github: https://github.com/silizium/luajit-2.0
Go and use the v2.1 branch for this. Much faster.
Time in the end is 10.71s user + 4.30s system=15.01 seconds