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by e12e 2868 days ago
As others have mentioned, luajit is a lot faster than lua:

http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

As an aside, I see there a gitlab project for the benchmark game - but I was surprised there doesn't appear anyone has put together an automated, open, bring your own language/code/patches version? Maybe with some community voting (eg: prefer idiomatic vs max speed)?

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

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> …but I was surprised there doesn't appear anyone has put together…

Why haven't you? That's probably why no one else has :-)

Instead be surprised that someone has continued to push the benchmarks game along, and that people have continued to contribute programs gratis.

It's been on my todo-list over neat ideas for a while. I just assumed someone would've beaten me to it by now :)

I suspect it might have to do with resources - dedicating multiple cores to benchmarking isn't going to be easy to do for free. Might be feasible for low cost, though.