Luje 0.1 – a pure Lua JVM
The article makes a rather hefty claim, that it is comparable or even in some ways faster performancewise than Sun's hotspot JVM.<p>From what I've heard the JVM is one of the most heavily researched and optimized bytecode VM out there. Could it really be that some guy can write a competitor in a scripting language in his spare time?<p>Not saying it's impossible, just curious if there's anything to back that claim up, besides the very specific microbenchmarks.<p>edit: I was a bit too quick to comment, reading again he doesn't really claim to be faster at anything other than small loops. Still interested if it's fast at any real world things though.