> bestest JIT currently found in any dynamically typed language
Aren't the best players in this field the JavaScript engines? Not because JS is the best language, but because Google, for example, hired people like Lars Bak to make them.
Javascript engines certainly have the best marketing going for them :) But Lua is a much simpler language and its much easier to write a JIT compiler for it than Javascript.
And if it comes to quality of programmers, LuaJIT has Mike Pall which is a bit of a legend for those who heard of him.
Aren't the best players in this field the JavaScript engines? Not because JS is the best language, but because Google, for example, hired people like Lars Bak to make them.