The dynamic features of scripting languages introduce significant overhead in execution time when compared to system languages. The scripting architecture can be used to improve the poor performance of scripting languages. The programmer should use a system language for resourceintensive tasks, and a scripting one for flexibility. However, this architecture has two significant flaws when used to improve the performance of scripting languages. First, there is a conceptual gap between both languages; so migrating from the scripting language to the system language may require enormous effort. Second, there is a hidden overhead when manipulating the scripting-language data structures from the system language. Pallene is a system language designed particularly for Lua that aims to solve these two issues. Pallene is a statically-typed subset of Lua, which facilitates the migration process. Moreover, Pallene manipulates Lua s data structures directly without introducing overhead. In this work, we propose two types of records for Pallene, and we present the implementation of the Pallene compiler. We benchmarked our compiler to compare it to standard Lua, LuaJIT, and C programs using the Lua-C API. Our experiments show that Pallene is competitive with the existing solutions to improve Lua s performance.