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LuaJIT 2.0 Beta released, making Lua the fastest interpreted language (debian.org)
1 point by compay on Nov 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Link goes to the benchmark shootout, the actual announcement it here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58814

Congrats to Mike Pall on an impressive solo achievement.


I'm not sure what this link is trying to tell me. Faster than JavaScript but slower than Java is "the fastest interpreted language"?




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