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+# Lua Benchmarks
+
+Compare the performance of different Lua implementations
+
+## Sample Results
+
+Computer information:
+
+```
+Distro: CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
+Kernel: 2.6.32-642.13.1.el6.x86_64
+CPU:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
+```
+![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gligneul/Lua-Benchmarks/master/results/speedup_luajit.png)
+![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gligneul/Lua-Benchmarks/master/results/speedup_lua53.png)
+![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gligneul/Lua-Benchmarks/master/results/speedup_lua5.png)
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+usage: lua runbenchmarks.lua [options]
+options:
+    --nruns <n>      number of times that each test is executed (default = 3)
+    --no-supress     don't supress error messages from tests
+    --output <name>  name of the benchmark output
+    --normalize      normalize the result based on the first binary
+    --speedup        compute the speedup based on the first binary
+    --no-plot        don't create the plot with gnuplot
+    --help           show this message
+```
+