Luabins 0.2 benchmark (see etc/benchmark.lua) results on

  MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo 2.66 MB DDR2 SDRAM
  OS X 10.6.2
  GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)
  Lua 5.1.4 from MacPorts
  Luabins built with default Makefile configuration

Note that the data used in benchmark is quite trivial. You're advised
to find out if Luabins is "fast enough" for you by yourself.

Lua
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                name |     rel | abs s / iter = us (1e-6 s) / iter
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        luabins_save |  1.0000 |   4.21 /    1000000 = 4.210000 us
        luabins_load |  1.2043 |   5.07 /    1000000 = 5.070000 us
          loadstring |  4.7435 |  19.97 /    1000000 = 19.970000 us
              concat | 10.6413 |  44.80 /    1000000 = 44.800000 us

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Luabins 0.1 benchmark (see etc/benchmark.lua) results on

  MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo 2.66 MB DDR2 SDRAM
  OS X 10.5.6
  GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)
  Lua 5.1.4 from MacPorts
  LuaJIT 1.1.3 built from sources with default configuration
  Luabins built with default configuration

Note that the data used in benchmark is quite trivial. You're advised
to find out if Luabins is "fast enough" for you by yourself.

Lua
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                name |     rel | abs s / iter = us (1e-6 s) / iter
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        luabins_load |  1.0000 |   6.34 /    1000000 = 6.340000 us
        luabins_save |  1.7256 |  10.94 /    1000000 = 10.940000 us
          loadstring |  3.6530 |  23.16 /    1000000 = 23.160000 us
              concat | 10.0741 |  63.87 /    1000000 = 63.870000 us

LuaJIT -O
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                name |     rel | abs s / iter = us (1e-6 s) / iter
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        luabins_load |  1.0000 |   5.40 /    1000000 = 5.400000 us
        luabins_save |  1.6111 |   8.70 /    1000000 = 8.700000 us
              concat |  6.6630 |  35.98 /    1000000 = 35.980000 us
          loadstring | 23.6370 | 127.64 /    1000000 = 127.640000 us