It is my understanding that benchmarks are run against LuaJIT interpreter (-j off), so here are some JIT numbers for reference, using the array3d.lua benchmark [1]

  time luajit -j off array3d.lua 
  
  real 0m1,968s
  user 0m1,915s
  sys 0m0,052s
  
  time luajit -j on array3d.lua 
  
  real 0m0,128s
  user 0m0,068s
  sys 0m0,060s

[1] https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake/blob/master/l...