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		endtime on May 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computer... Does the plain Lua interpreter also JIT? PyPy is written in Python and it's a lot faster than CPython in many cases, thanks in large part to the JIT.

haberman on May 26, 2011 [–]

The numbers I quoted are when LuaJIT has the JIT disabled. It's an interpreter-to-interpreter comparison.

endtime on May 26, 2011 | [–]

Oh, cool, thanks for clarifying.

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