What everyone in this subthread is looking for is LuaJIT. It's the fastest JITed language. Comparable to C for many tasks. It has a very tiny memory footprint a

What everyone in this subthread is looking for is LuaJIT. It's the fastest JITed language. Comparable to C for many tasks. It has a very tiny memory footprint and integrates into C and C++ well. And there's torch if you need to do fast matrix math or machine learning.