The luaJIT compiler[0] is stupendously good. Bob Nystrom, one of the developers for Dart, once said "Mike Pall [the developer] is a robot from the future"[1].

The luaJIT compiler[0] is stupendously good. Bob Nystrom, one of the developers for Dart, once said "Mike Pall [the developer] is a robot from the future"[1]. [0] http://luajit.org/luajit.html http://luajit.org/luajit.html [1] http://wren.io/performance.html http://wren.io/performance.html