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by kragen 5673 days ago
I think http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... is probably a better ceiling. LuaJIT is fantastic and already generates better code than GCC in some cases, but in many others it does not.

There's no theoretical limit to how close a compiler can come to a programmer when it comes to generating machine code to do a particular well-defined task.