>Without any frame of reference, those values are meaningless. How about we compile some results right here? Below is what I get on an AMD Phenom II X4 965 PC

>Without any frame of reference, those values are meaningless. How about we compile some results right here? Below is what I get on an AMD Phenom II X4 965 PC with 8 GB RAM running Linux Mint 13 Maya, kernel version 3.2.0-48-generic x86_64. — Lua.vm.js in Firefox 21.0 Score: 115 binarytrees 56.978 seconds scimark 1.79 MFLOPS startup 0.431 seconds — Native Lua 5.2.2 ~> lua scimark.lua FFT 14.65 [1024] SOR 30.41 [100] MC 9.32 SPARSE 19.32 [1000, 5000] LU 23.70 [100] SciMark 19.48 [small problem sizes] ~> time lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 stretch tree of depth 15 check: -1 53974 trees of depth 4 check: -53974 13493 trees of depth 6 check: -13492 3373 trees of depth 8 check: -3372 843 trees of depth 10 check: -842 210 trees of depth 12 check: -210 52 trees of depth 14 check: -52 long lived tree of depth 14 check: -1 lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 5,99s user 0,01s system 99% cpu 6,001 total — Geekbench-2.4.3-Linux on the same computer http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2076712 http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2076712 (the page includes detailed PC specifications) Edit: redid the native benchmarks with Lua 5.2.2. ----- Edit 2: The same set of benchmarks gives the following results on a ThinkPad X61s laptop with a Core 2 Duo L7500 CPU and 4 GB RAM running Linux Mint 13 Maya, kernel version 3.5.0-32-generic x86_64: — Lua.vm.js in Firefox 21.0 Score: 59 binarytrees 117.675 seconds scimark 0.95 MFLOPS startup 0.822 seconds — Native Lua 5.2.2 ~> lua scimark.lua FFT 6.55 [1024] SOR 15.36 [100] MC 4.11 SPARSE 10.24 [1000, 5000] LU 12.40 [100] SciMark 8.73 [small problem sizes] ~> time lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 stretch tree of depth 15 check: -1 53974 trees of depth 4 check: -53974 13493 trees of depth 6 check: -13492 3373 trees of depth 8 check: -3372 843 trees of depth 10 check: -842 210 trees of depth 12 check: -210 52 trees of depth 14 check: -52 long lived tree of depth 14 check: -1 lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 9,63s user 0,04s system 99% cpu 9,713 total — Geekbench-2.4.3-Linux http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2077111 http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2077111