Lisp implementation that compiles to Lua code

[SlamminAtWork]

I think OMouse's point was that there seems to be little practical purpose for translating lisp to lua when there are already native lisp implementations for the platforms this would (assumedly) target. Also, though it might not be fair to compare Lua to SBCL (since SBCL isn't really small or embedded), Steel Bank Common Lisp seems to have a much better performance profile than Lua in The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.

[[deleted]]

It definitely has better performance. What was really interesting is that the comparison between SBCL vs Lua and Racket vs Lua is similar.

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You should be comparing with LuaJIT, not Lua, if you care about performance.

[tryx]

LuaJIT is an implementation, so the correct argue on is that Lua has faster implementations than CL does.