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by Touche 250 days ago
I feel like the existence of LuaJIT made is seemed like standard Lua was slow, but that's far from the case.
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I spent a few nights trying to implement a Lua interpreter myself and it was still like 10x slower than PUC Lua, even before adding a GC. I'm not sure how they do it, it looks like regular C code