At a crossroad

[bearophile]

Daniel Keep:
> Language        SciMark score (larger is better)
> ============================
> Lua 5.1.4        13.87
> LuaJIT 1.1.x     89.80
> LuaJIT 2 [1]    425.11
> C [2]           604.44

If you want to do comparisons I have translated SciMark to D, you find timings too inside the zip:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/js/scimark2.zip

To beat the JIT2 o LUA you need LDC, because DMD sometimes isn't enough :-)
'nuff said,
bearophile