text: On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Brigham Toskin <email@example.com> wrote:
  > One, I'd like to keep the code all in Lua for now. I had considered
  > implementing some code in C before; that would be nice and zippy, but then
  > makes building/installation more cumbersome, and the C code that interfaces
  > with Lua is by nature rather ugly and complex. I might consider this kind of
  > thing in the future if it turns out I need more performance than I can
  > squeeze out of thoughtfully-written Lua code, but I'm not convinced it would
  > be a big win for me.
  Using the C API will make LuaJIT's performance bottom out. If you're
  worried about performance across VMs, stick to pure Lua.