I wrote a benchmark that measures the speed of various VM parsers and the speedup that precompiling brings. I found that precompiling was a huge speed benefit:

I wrote a benchmark that measures the speed of various VM parsers and the speedup that precompiling brings. I found that precompiling was a huge speed benefit: http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/10/the-speed-of-python-ruby-and-luas.html http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/10/the-speed-of-python-ruby...