dreadkillz wrote:Was this benchmark done with LuaJIT? It probably would help boost the score by a lot but I'd imagine we still end up last.

I performed it again with slime's LuaJIT Love, and it attained ~9000 sprites, a 1.8x improvement over regular love and closes the gap on XNA significantly.

For what it's worth, I ran the test and got way more performance than that. Unfortunately, since he only published the windows ones, I couldn't really test the others myself. Your numbers will depend on how strong your computer is. I checked both love and XNA which were able to hold 60fps at 5000 a...

Hi, I'm currently making games in as3 with flashpunk, but have been wanting to expand my horizons a little into a new language (and a system that is more network friendly), and love looks like a good option. Lots of people I know constantly rave about how great lua is, so I decided to do some invest...