From what I've heard the author of LuaJIT contributed a lot of performance improvements to V8.
LuaJIT is a blessing and a curse. It's magnitudes faster than the standard interpreter but on the other hand it's version is lagging behind which means a lot of people won't benefit from the latest lua version
And the constant performance improvements over the last years, that are the result of the ongoing race for better performance between the browser vendors.
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I am surprised that nobody mentions the great performance of Google's V8 engine here...
From what I've heard the author of LuaJIT contributed a lot of performance improvements to V8.
LuaJIT is a blessing and a curse. It's magnitudes faster than the standard interpreter but on the other hand it's version is lagging behind which means a lot of people won't benefit from the latest lua version
And the constant performance improvements over the last years, that are the result of the ongoing race for better performance between the browser vendors.