My machine is slower than yours and luajit does your million benchmark in 0.037s

    time luajit -e 'for i=1,100000000 do end'
    
    real	0m0.037s
    user	0m0.034s
    sys         0m0.002s

Just plain old Lua

    time lua -e 'for i=1,100000000 do end'
    
    real	0m0.502s
    user	0m0.497s
    sys         0m0.004s