Python vs Perl vs Lua - speed comparison. Part 2

As far as people show interest in this topic I decided to perform an additional measurement to the one I performed in Part 1.

This time I wanted to compare floating point numbers operations performance because my good friend Anonymous worried about it. He said that I shouldn't have abused lua interpreter with basic arithmetic operations on integers because it's not good at it. He said that I should have tried floating points numbers instead to let lua interpreter shine. I was a bit skeptic about it to be honest but Anonymous's logic was sound.

OpenGL Core Profile and an overlay with the QPainter

I've played recently with the OpenGL Core Profile and QGLWidget to see if I can render a scene with only core profile functions and shaders. Everything worked well until I decided to add an FPS counter using overlaid text drawn with the QPainter.

Improving pm-utils power management scripts for pci devices

By default pm-utils changes power control parameters only for a subset of device classes. The classes id's are hardcoded into the /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/pci_devices script. Unfortunately it is not possible for a user to define his own set of classes to be treated by the script.