Lua is celebrated as the "perfect embedded language." From powering video games like World of Warcraft and Roblox to driving hardware in routers and set-top boxes, its lightweight speed is a key feature. To achieve this speed, Lua scripts are compiled into —a low-level, numerical representation of your code that the Lua Virtual Machine (VM) can execute rapidly.
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