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by ansible 1010 days ago
> ... and it’s faster than it has any right to be

The main Lua interpreter by PUC-Rio is among the fastest bytecode interpreters for a popular scripting language. Very efficient C code.

Wizard programmer Mike Pall then came along and wrote an even faster Lua bytecode interpreter in assembly language. And added JIT for even faster performance of hot functions.