&gt; While I agree with your premise (LuaJIT is a pretty awesome project), this example means nothing in terms of performance.<p>Yup, without knowing deployment details etc this number doesn&#x27;t really mean much.<p>perhaps you might have heard of the snabb-switch project ? which does line rate 10gbps forwarding of 64b packets on a single x86 core. entire thing is written in lua including the user land &#x27;drivers&#x27; for Intel 10g cards :)<p>Edit: s&#x2F;shabby&#x2F;snabb (damn you autocorrect)