# Lua(Jit) for computing accelerator beam physics

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Developers@CERN Forum
- Speaker: Laurent Deniau
- Year: 2016
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3016478)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As mentioned in the 2nd developers meeting, I would like to open the debate with a special presentation on another language - Lua, and a tremendous technology - LuaJit. Lua is much less known at CERN, but it is very simple, much smaller than Python and its JIT is extremely performant. The language is a dynamic scripting language easy to learn and easy to embedded in applications. I will show how we use it in HPC for accelerator beam physics as a replacement for C, C++, Fortran and Python, with some benchmarks versus Python, PyPy4 and C/C++..

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## Lectures

1. [Lua(Jit) for computing accelerator beam physics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3016478/301a41c51ef7), 42 min (CERN's player)