Re: [request] lua 5.4 amalgamated / and feedback on flags and warnings

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 3/19/2018 2:26 AM, Rodrigo Azevedo wrote:
> Could be possible to add one.tar.gz (amalgamation) to the default 
> lua 5.4 packages?
>
> Reason: amalgamated compilation usually shows an improved performance.

For large code bases, the usual thing to do would be to enable LTO 
[1] on compiler+platforms combinations that support it. As such, 
there is less emphasis on the concatenated-sources method these days.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interprocedural_optimization

> *Example*: the code I showed in the other thread "teste_gc.lua" 
> [1] with standard and one.tar.gz from lua 5.3 (extra) [2], and 
> generational gc.
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