> The standard interpreter is many times faster than Ruby and Python http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://

> The standard interpreter is many times faster than Ruby and Python http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... No it's not "many times faster". Standard Lua is just a little faster than CPython. LuaJIT2 kicks everyone's ass, though.