While using LuaJIT in my apps I found this bug while declaring a new table with "nil" value in the middle, read the following examples, while in Lua the output is 3 in LuajIT is 1. Lua 5.2.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > a = {1,nil,2} > print(#a) 3 bart@archrox:~ $ lua5.1 Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > a = {1,nil,2} > print(#a) 3 bart@archrox:~ $ luajit LuaJIT 2.0.3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/ JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc sink fuse > a = {1,nil,2} > print(#a) 1