HDF5 for Lua provides bindings for the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5),
a file format and library for portable, flexible and efficient storage of
numerical data. LuaJIT is a just-in-time compiler for the Lua language
that provides native C data structures through its foreign function interface
(FFI) library. HDF5 for Lua supports HDF5 1.8 using LuaJIT.