Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> However, I think that Roberto tested that program on a machine for which
> the conversion int <-> float is costly. I'm not sure modern machines have
> this problem.

As we expect such conversions to be much less frequent, we removed
several non-portable dirty tricks that Lua used to speed up such
conversions. (Moreover, I think currently only my machine benefits from
those tricks ;) If needed, we can return those tricks.

-- Roberto