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		pygy_ on April 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My experience with the computer language shootout AFAIK, the LuaJIT entries use custom, optimized scripts.

igouy on April 4, 2011 [–]

They certainly use Mike Pall's expert skill as a Lua programmer and implementer of LuaJIT ;-)

But they are Lua programs measured on both the Lua interpreter and LuaJIT.

(Programs that rely on the LuaJIT only FFI library and won't work with the Lua interpreter are shown separately.)

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