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--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com> wrote:

> > LuaJIT 2 stood out as the fastest scripting language in general
> > usage, with some of the tightest code. It seems rather wrong to
> > exclude it from ANY reasonable standpoint, if your goals are to find
> > the languages that perform the best.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#why


> > Maybe the current maintainer doesn't like the fact that it left
> > V8 (or some other favorite language) eating its dust.

The current maintainer is the same person who included LuaJIT 5 years ago, and happily publicised LuaJIT.

The current maintainer isn't bothered about which language implementations "eat dust".