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by kzrdude 4816 days ago
My impression would be that

* LuaJIT is comparable to the best javascript engines in performance

* LuaJIT is entirely the work of one person.

Lua is well designed and values simplicity, which has lent itself well to Pall's success.

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And Mike Pall is a superhero when it comes to writing JIT compilers.