This repo is for experimenting with "hand-compiled" Titan programs so we can decide how the code generation should look like before actually implementing the code generator.
It also includes a patched version of Lua.5.3.4 that has been modified to expose the internal data structures and functions that we will need to access.
- Build the patched version of Lua in the "lua" folder.
- cd into the examples folder
- Run the makefile
- Run the test_*.lua scripts using the patched Lua. These scripts receive two arguments: the type of test to run ("Lua" or "Typed") and the size of the test instance.
I started with the simplest functions. The plan is to move on to more advanced language features later.
This function is as simple as it gets, just a litle loop of integer arithmetic operations. I would expect this to be the highest speedup we will get.
In addition to the plain Lua version and the typed Titan version I also made a dynamically-typed titan versino to check what speedup we get just removing the interpreter overhead.
I made this function to check if I wasn't doing anything really stupid regarding the garbage collection.
This is a sligthly less trivial program that does lots of reading and writing to a typed away. I think it is a good test for data structure performance in Titan.
Another nice little function that does a lot of reading and writing to typed arrays.