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101. Re: [ANN] LuaProfiler 2.0 (score: 21)

Author: David Olofson <david@...>

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:02:12 +0200

True in this specific case, but not universally. Consider emulated 64 bit integers, for example. On a 32 bit compiler with emulation, they provide a shortcut to 32 bit MUL instructions generating 64

102. [ANN] stdlib 41.0.0 released (score: 20)

Author: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 20:38:31 +0000

stdlib is a library of modules for common programming tasks, including list, table and functional operations, objects, pickling, pretty-printing and command-line option parsing. I am happy to announc

103. Re: Speed of Lua's immutable strings vs buffers (split from Re: Pooling of strings is good) (score: 20)

Author: Sean Conner <sean@...>

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:38:46 -0400

It was thus said that the Great Coroutines once stated: The suckb.lua script does allocate the buffer once, and it is of a fixed size. The __len() function returns the currently used amount of the bu

104. Re: An interesting new ways to do errors (score: 20)

Author: HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:34:09 -0700

I'm having some trouble understanding how you intend the error handler to work. I glanced at your script but couldn't quite tell what you were doing. As for warnings, the problem I have with your ide

105. Re: [ANN] Lua for Windows v5.1.4.18 Released (score: 20)

Author: "Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:35:19 -0400

"Is there anything I should know about the project/compiler/linker/whatever settings to be compatible with LfW?" Nope, nothing special, that I'm aware of, just use runtime library that MSVC++ Visual

106. Re: [ANN] Lua for Windows v5.1.4.18 Released (score: 20)

Author: "Mark Meijer" <meijer78@...>

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:10:40 +0200

2008/9/12 Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>: It's been a long while indeed between the current version of TCC and the previous one. I have no clue as to what's up with it, what's happening in the TC

107. [ANNOUNCE] IUP 2.3.1 (score: 20)

Author: Antonio Scuri <scuri@...>

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:12:26 -0300

Hi, The IUP toolkit has been updated to version 2.3.1. You can find the list of changes and the updated files for download at: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ I would like to point out the followi

108. Re: Name resolution in Lua (was: Feature ...) (score: 19)

Author: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@...>

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:20:02 +0100

My point is not that the table has to be implemetned necessarily as a hash with a vector indexed by hash(key) containing pointers/references to keys and collision pointers (or a randomization functio

109. Re: big planz around Lua [1/2] (score: 19)

Author: Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:00:09 +0100

epic troll On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:18 PM, szbnwer@gmail.com <szbnwer@gmail.com> wrote: hint 4 readin: read this previously Re: Idea. Removing nils from the language., this1 mayb eazyer to understan

110. big planz around Lua [1/2] (score: 19)

Author: "szbnwer@..." <szbnwer@...>

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:18:41 +0100

hint 4 readin: read this previously Re: Idea. Removing nils from the language., this1 mayb eazyer to understand, decide it on ur own, but its my handsign how im writin and way of my own thinkin even

111. Re: on the cost of non-blocking LuaSockets (score: 19)

Author: William Ahern <william@...>

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:18:58 -0800

The thundering herd problem still exists except under very narrow conditions. In particular it's only fixed where at least one thread is already blocking on a read or accept call (i.e. not polling).

112. Re: arithmetics bug? (score: 19)

Author: Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@...>

Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:40:58 +0200

With this simple one-liner I can reproduce the following arithmetic error: for var=10,0,-0.1 do print(var) end Are you sure this is a Lua error? Can you give a language/example where this works as y

113. Re: Acceptable indicies (score: 19)

Author: liam mail <liam.list@...>

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:57:46 +0100

Thanks for the comment which actually looks like you are trolling. The "stack" is really not a stack as per normal convention[1] yet I would say a list, but this is besides the point. Both myself and

114. Re: Bit ops on boolean arrays? (score: 19)

Author: "David J. Slate" <dslate@...>

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:49:09 -0600

David Manura makes a useful point about the problem of using bool arrays as table keys. The main reason I suggested doing bit ops on bool arrays is that at an abstract level, bit ops actually treat t

115. unsubscribe (score: 19)

Author: Mathijs de Meijer <mdemeijer@...>

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:21:27 +0200

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116. Re: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch? (score: 19)

Author: Asko Kauppi <askok@...>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:54:32 +0300

Sorry fot the time shift effect on my mail. Had forgotten Doug's ldecnumber module, which seems The way of doing this. Asko Kauppi kirjoitti 15.4.2008 kello 8:23: The original LNUM had also a BCD mod

117. Re: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch? (score: 19)

Author: Asko Kauppi <askok@...>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:23:37 +0300

The original LNUM had also a BCD mode, which was removed for simplicity. I wanted to see, how far the number modes concept could go, and drew a line between complex (included, since C99 offers great

118. Re: Feature request : More lightuserdata types (score: 18)

Author: ?? Cloud Wu <cloudwu@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:15:02 +0800

Flyer31 Test <flyer31@googlemail.com>?2022?2?22? ??21:59??? So lightuserdata would just be a 64bit value (and in Lua32 then a 32bit value). And you anyway can use metafunctions with lightuserdata? ..

119. Re: Feature request : More lightuserdata types (score: 18)

Author: ?? Cloud Wu <cloudwu@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:04:54 +0800

Flyer31 Test <flyer31@googlemail.com>?2022?2?22? ??21:59??? So lightuserdata would just be a 64bit value (and in Lua32 then a 32bit value). And you anyway can use metafunctions with lightuserdata? ..

120. Re: Feature request : More lightuserdata types (score: 18)

Author: ?? Cloud Wu <cloudwu@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:00:16 +0800

You probably want a full userdata to avoid UB. LU aren't collected, so you can't know if it's still alive or not/when to free it/etc. "Optimizations" like these are a security nightmare. Many object