Lua very fast on the mainframe

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

I'm really loving Lua! I'm a C/C++/Assembler programmer by trade and was 
looking to port a decent scripting language to z/OS for modernization. I 
stumbled
across Lua when I ported redis. Not only is it a snack to port it's C 
API just rocks. Great work guys!

Here are a couple of rough benchmarks compared to REXX.

http://users.tpg.com.au/crayford/rexx-lua-c-io-benchmark.htm
http://users.tpg.com.au/crayford/lua-rexx-db2-benchmarks.htm