Luau's Performance
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Luau in interpreter mode is pretty much as fast as LuaJIT 2.1 in interpreter mode.
Luau with (partial) native compilation is factor 1.6 slower than LuaJIT 2.1 in JIT mode. I used Luau with the -g0 -O2 --codegen options (didn't add --!native to the code though).