> Worth noting that IIRC, for a while LuaJIT in interpreted mode was able to beat V8 in optimized mode not all that infrequently V8 had no optimizing compiler

> Worth noting that IIRC, for a while LuaJIT in interpreted mode was able to beat V8 in optimized mode not all that infrequently V8 had no optimizing compiler when Mike Pall sent his (in)famous mail about "LuaJIT interpreter beating V8 compiler"[1]. Also usual disclaimers about cross-language benchmarks apply (e.g. nobody looked how those benchmarks differ between JS and Lua implementation). [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-03/msg00305.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-03/msg00305.html