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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> wondering what enhancements FFI brings to the project? That is: Does
> FFI make the project faster, more stable, more capable?

I'm no expert on the project, but LuaJIT FFI is _way_ faster than Lua
C bindings, practically as fast as they would be called from C.  In
fact, the LuaJIT universe advises against explicit C bindings if
performance is desired.