If you want to get an idea just how good LuaJIT is take a look at these benchmarks against the stock VM(which is already good) [1][2] We used to run Lua on a 3

If you want to get an idea just how good LuaJIT is take a look at these benchmarks against the stock VM(which is already good) [1][2] We used to run Lua on a 300MHz MIPS processor and it was impressive in how well it worked on that constrained platform(only 8mb is system ram, of that Lua ran in a fixed 400kb block). [1] - http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html [2] - http://luajit.org/performance.html http://luajit.org/performance.html