So from what I can read, the Morrowind Script Extender uses LuaJIT instead of regular lua, which does tracing just-in-time compilation. Meaning, and I'm just paraphrasing wikipeda here, it compiles frequently executed sequeneces of operations into machine code.

This (or this) is 185bpm for reference ;)

I haven't tried in a long time but I know a few years ago france.tv was geoblocking IPs outside of France. Don't know that's still the case tough. A VPN made it work though.