[haberman]

You did say that LuaJIT "usually cares for smaller stuff," implying that it isn't optimal (or as optimal as PyPy) for larger stuff. I could see how someone who had worked for years to optimize LuaJIT for all cases could find that disparaging. It sounds like you're writing off LuaJIT as only meant for toy programs.

[fijal]

Well. the luaJIT benchmark page does not contain any large benchmarks, while it does contain computer language shootout ones which are small. There might be many many legitimate reasons for that, but it does imply that LuaJIT cares for small stuff more, since all the public benchmarks are small.