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Re:Fennel – Lisp in Lua by philsnow on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:05PM (#24392803)
> the Lua VM is an interpreter rather than a JIT compiler

There's also luajit, but I don't know how common it is vs "just Lua". My impression was that luajit was used pretty often though.

Re:Fennel – Lisp in Lua by pjmlp on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:06AM (#24399905)
LuaJIT is stuck in version 2.1.0, while Lua is at version 5.4.
Re:Fennel – Lisp in Lua by masklinn on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:34AM (#24409414)
These versions have nothing to do with one another. LuaJIT 2.1.0 implements Lua 5.1