Is LuaJIT really faster than every other JIT-ed dynamic languages?

Posted by Gabriel Cuvillier on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Gabriel Cuvillier
Published on 2010-04-06T20:30:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 20:33 UTC
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According to the computer language benchmark game, the LuaJIT implementation seems to beat every other JIT-ed dynamic language (V8, Tracemonkey, PLT Scheme, Erlang HIPE) by an order of magnitude.

I know that these benchmarks are not representative (as they say: "Which programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?"), but this is still really impressive.

In practice, is it really the case? Someone have tested that Lua implementation?

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