[camperman]

Luajit detects the kind of output file passed to the -b option, in this case .o, and writes the data accordingly. It's actually writing compiled architecture-specific object code here which can be linked into a static library. You can also pass it a .c or a .h extension to get c source or headers.

I think luac compiles to bytecode only.

[0x01]

Ah, this explains why running a file on the .o file said it was lua bytecode. This feature of luajit makes it much more appealing. Thanks for the info!