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		est on Jan 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tir 0.9 Is Out, Hype.la Open Sourced > The standard interpreter is many times faster than Ruby and Python http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... No it's not "many times faster". Standard Lua is just a little faster than CPython. LuaJIT2 kicks everyone's ass, though.

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