[freyrs3]

Lua has some areas where it excels in performance, but using Python you can leverage 10 years of work on numeric libraries that unrivaled in any other general purpose language. NumPy and SciPy are extremely powerful.

[draegtun]

One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl.

Some refs:

- http://pdl.perl.org/

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-p...

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-t...