On May 22, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Wojciech Barski <luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Results in windows are usually much worse for Luajit. >> > > I actually got 9 seconds for Lua 5.1 vs 13 seconds for LuaJIT 2.0.1 on > Windows. Not that it's that important FWIW, on a tiny MBA, running Mac OS X 10.8.3: Lua 5.2: 31 seconds LuaJIT 2.0.1: 58 seconds So, yeah, LuaJIT appears to be about twice as slow on that particular test, on that particular platform. That said, string manipulation/optimization was never LuaJIT forte in my, admittedly limited, experimentations.