Overall, the JS/V8 version was twice as fast as the Lua/LuaJIT version. LuaJIT was only faster in the Mandelbrot benchmark. The recent PUC Lua version 5.4.1 is even ten times slower than the V8 version at the time. More recent V8 will likely be even faster. The results also demonstrate that one can get a pretty false impression when just looking at single microbenchmarks.
Here are the results: http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_lua_results...
Overall, the JS/V8 version was twice as fast as the Lua/LuaJIT version. LuaJIT was only faster in the Mandelbrot benchmark. The recent PUC Lua version 5.4.1 is even ten times slower than the V8 version at the time. More recent V8 will likely be even faster. The results also demonstrate that one can get a pretty false impression when just looking at single microbenchmarks.