Lua vs python
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The document compares Lua and Python as scripting languages for application development, highlighting Lua's compactness, speed, and suitability for mobile applications, while emphasizing Python's powerful standard library and ease of use. It details the prototyping of a mobile calculator using both languages, showcasing implementation and code size for each. Ultimately, it concludes that while Lua is more efficient for resource-constrained environments, Python is preferable when abundant resources are available.
Lua vs python
- 1. P ytho n vs L ua S K p la ne t 신호철
- 2. Background
- 3. Script for making Applications Background - The complexity of applications increased extremely. - Applications need to be applied large-scale refactoring. What can the script do ? - Can reduce code-size and increase maintainability. - Make it easy to append new applications. - When the middleware layer is modified, the modification doesn’t propagate to the application layer. It’s limited to the script-engine layer. Candidate script languages - Lua, Python
- 4. Lua porting
- 5. What’s Lua Lua is Implemented and maintained by Tecgraf*1. Lua has used in many industrial applications such as Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom. Lua is the leading scripting language in games. Lua is Embedded in games ( e.g. World of Warcraft ) and Ginga*2. : Tecgraf - http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/ *1 : Ginga brasil – 브라질향 데이터방송 규격 *2
- 6. Why Lua Lua is small - The source contains around 17,000 Lines of C. - All standard libraries take just 144K Bytes. Lua is powerful - Lua provides meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. - Lua provides garbage collection. Lua is fast - Several benchmarks show Lua as the one of the fastest languages. Lua is portable & embeddable - Lua is definitely easy to be embedded with small footprint. Lua is free : MIT License*1 : MIT License - http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%A0%EC%8A%A4 *1
- 7. Lua-Application Prototyping - 1/2 We ported mobile Calculator into Lua - We implemented UI Wrapper functions which are required in Calculator. - GTK-related functions and Softkey functions. - Calculator Logic is implemented by Lua script. - Main functions which is needed in 4 fundamental rules of Arithmetic are ported now. - The prototype of Lua-Calculator is successfully ported in our mobile platform.
- 8. Lua-Application Prototyping - 2/2 GTK mapping - Wrapper functions are implemented. - makeWindow, makeButton, makeLabel, setLabel, makeSoftkey. Calculator Logic - 190 Lines of Lua code. Calculator UI - 54 Lines of Lua code. Wrapper Code & Lua script Main.c Calc.lua
- 10. What’s Python Released first by Guido van Rossum in 1991. Now managed by Python Software Foundation*1 Embedded as a scripting language in these S/W products. *2 - GIMP, gedit, Vim, Maya etc - In mobile domain, Python for s60*3 Features a fully dynamic type, automatic memory management. *1 : Python Software Foundation – Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Software_Foundation *2 : Python-embedded S/W – Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_software *3 : Python for s60 – nokia.com http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Python_for_S60
- 11. Why Python Highly Readable - Python uses whitespace indentation to delimit statement blocks. Powerful Standard Library - Python has a very large standard library. Powerful Glue Language - Python has the ability to use a lower-level language such as C/C++. - Python can easily attach new modules by using ctypes*1 or swig*2, etc. Free - Python Software Foundation License*3 : Allows modifications to the source code and derivative works. *1 : Ctypes – http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/module-ctypes.html *2 : Swig – http://www.swig.org *3 : Python Software Foundation License – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Software_Foundation_License
- 12. Python-Application Prototyping : Calculator To wrap gtk layer, we try to use PyGTK*1. platform-dependent functions such as Softkeys are not yet implemented by hand. Calculator UI : 114 Lines of python code - Example UI code : Y:funcalc.py : PyGTK : GTK wrapper for python - http://www.pygtk.org/ *1
- 13. Lua vs Python
- 14. Lua vs Python Lua Python Binary size about 200KB About 2MB (Lua version 5.1) (Python version 2.6) Memory usage Lua is more compact Speed Lua is faster*1 Multi-threading Thread-safe Poor-quality Standard Library Small & compact Rich & powerful Glue ability Easy Normal *1 : see also Lua vs Python : CPU+Memory
- 15. What is the most suitable for mobile applications Lua is more compact and faster than Python. But Python is further powerful. - Python has lots of build-in modules and many open-source wrapper modules such as pyGtk. In case of mobile application which has abundant resources, Python is the most suitable for applications.
- 16. Appendix
- 17. Lua vs Python : CPU+Memory CPU + Memory Usage + Lines of Code.