[kzrdude]

No. Lua here uses luajit, a jit compiler and interpreter for Lua which Python can not beat. Python has the numba package, which is in the same direction, less easy to use, more restricted, and I don't know if numba can approach luajit's speed here, we'd have to try it out.

(After working on the numpy code posted in this thread, I think Python is pretty competitive, but it requires quite a few contortions - rewriting it using numpy.)