* Running with just normal Lua $ time lua fibonacci.lua The 40th Fibonacci number is: 102334155 real 0m5.601s user 0m5.590s sys 0m0.001s * Running with Luajit $ luajit -b fibonacci.lua fibonacci.luac $ time luajit fibonacci.luac The 40th Fibonacci number is: 102334155 real 0m1.050s user 0m1.047s sys 0m0.001s * Running with Luajit embedded into C $ cc -o fibonacci fibonacci.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs luajit` $ time ./fibonacci The 40th Fibonacci number is: 102334155 real 0m1.033s user 0m1.031s sys 0m0.000s