On 10 Dec 2014 18:39, "Szabó Antal" <szabo.antal.92@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2014-12-10 19:15 GMT+01:00 Joseph Ellsworth <joexdobs@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> The sample / example would allocate the array, Fill it with a set of doubles read from a file, Run the sum and return both the sum and average value. > > > Here is a sample code for what I suppose you want: http://pastebin.com/cj7jShfj > > The summation loop looks like this in x64 assembly (use -jdump with luajit to get it): > > ->LOOP: > 7ffc8350ff80 addsd xmm7, [rax+rdi*8+0x8] > 7ffc8350ff86 add edi, +0x01 > 7ffc8350ff89 cmp edi, 0x270f > 7ffc8350ff8f jle 0x7ffc8350ff80 ->LOOP > > As far as I can tell, this is the shortest and fastest you can get without using vector instructions, which LuaJIT doesn't currently support. For something more end-user-friendly (for this project at least) than bare FFI the author might be interested in my the algebra module of an open source project I'm working on: http://scilua.org/sci_alg.html Stefano > > > Antal Szabó