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		ksec on April 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: mruby But LuaJIT 2 is insanely fast, even the Heavy / Fast Ruby isn't even anywhere near its speed. So why would one choose mRuby over Lua?

Cloven on April 21, 2012 | [–]

Heavy Ruby is not designed for speed, and much of its heaviness causes slowness. It's entirely possible/likely that mruby will be in the same ballpark as luajit2 soon after release.

heretohelp on April 21, 2012 | [–]

LuaJIT 2 is fast because the Lua world has Mike, who is a genius.

That said, Lua is fucking weird.

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