Putting Lua through its paces. Here's Advent of Code 2024, Day 13, running on all my favorite hardware that I had on hand, through the power of Lua.
Ryzen 5 9600X modern desktop - 1 ms.
HP 200LX, 8 MHz 186, 640 KB RAM available to Lua: 62 seconds.
TI-92+, 12 MHz 68000, 64 KB RAM available to Lua: 65 seconds.
"Write once, run anywhere".
Texas Instruments TI-92+ graphing calculator. Unlike most calculators, this machine is in landscape form factor and has a built-in QWERTY keyboard.
Lua session showing a row of "."s (progress meter) then the correct answer to the problem.
HP 200LX palmtop computer
Lua session showing a row of "."s (progress meter) then the correct answer to the problem.
Terminal emulator on a modern Linux PC
$ lua 13.lua
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