Shorter bars are better. Each benchmark is run ten times and the best time is kept. It only measures the time taken to execute the benchmarked code itself, not interpreter startup. These were run on my MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 16 GB of 1,600 MHz DDR3 RAM. Tested against Lua 5.2.3, LuaJIT 2.0.2, Python 2.7.5, Python 3.3.4, ruby 2.0.0p247. LuaJIT is run with the JIT disabled (i.e. in b