There&#x27;s a benchmark [0] showing better performance than Lua, but it&#x27;s not clear if plain Lua was used and not LuaJIT.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;matsumoto-r&#x2F;6930672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;matsumoto-r&#x2F;6930672</a>