Gisp is a core scripting tool serving billions of dynamic responses (such as AB test response) every day on our servers.
Read js implementation for detailed info: https://github.com/ysmood/nisp
Compare to normal gopher-lua, gisp is about 90 times faster with a much smaller memory footprint. Though the test situation is very limited, but it reflects gisp is suitable for simple (such as you don't want your users to take time to learn the complex grammar of Lua), performance demanded and embed scripting situation.
go test -bench . -benchmem
BenchmarkLua-8 100000 23060 ns/op 85464 B/op 73 allocs/op
BenchmarkGisp-8 5000000 248 ns/op 264 B/op 5 allocs/op