See http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html Though luajit has gotten even more optimisations since that was done. That s

See http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html Though luajit has gotten even more optimisations since that was done. That said, I rarely find my code's performance is the bottleneck, and don't benefit from luajit. The guys that do are doing scientific computing (e.g. torch) or high performance networking (e.g. snabb)