This benchmark has been misleading for a while. It was originally made to demonstrate how JIT compilers can do all sorts of crazy stuff to your code - especially LuaJIT - and was meant to be a starting point of discussion about what exactly LuaJIT does and how.
As a result, its not indicative of what its performance may be on more realistic data. Differences can be expected because
- the text will not consist of hard-coded constants