If FFI is loadable, how are you going to prevent your untrusted script from loading it and going to town? How are you going to avoid providing "direct access?" My whole point is that I don't think you can. It's all or nothing. If ffi is available to some Lua code, it is available to all of it.

I even asked Mike Paul (LuaJIT author this question, and he said "That's not a viable approach for sandboxing.") http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg01582.html