<story><title>Luje 0.1 – a pure Lua JVM</title><url>https://cowlark.com/luje/doc/stable/doc/index.wiki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>David Given is one of those prolific thinkers and doers who seem to be overrepresented in the Lua community.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s probably  best known to HNers for his critical article &amp;quot;On Go&amp;quot; and Objective Lua.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cowlark.com&amp;#x2F;2009-11-15-go&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
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<story><title>Luje 0.1 – a pure Lua JVM</title><url>https://cowlark.com/luje/doc/stable/doc/index.wiki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>The article makes a rather hefty claim, that it is comparable or even in some ways faster performancewise than Sun&amp;#x27;s hotspot JVM.&lt;p&gt;From what I&amp;#x27;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?&lt;p&gt;Not saying it&amp;#x27;s impossible, just curious if there&amp;#x27;s anything to back that claim up, besides the very specific microbenchmarks.&lt;p&gt;edit: I was a bit too quick to comment, reading again he doesn&amp;#x27;t really claim to be faster at anything other than small loops. Still interested if it&amp;#x27;s fast at any real world things though.</text></comment>