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- Subject: Re: hex numbers
- From: "Mauro Vezzosi"<mvezzosi@...>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:22:41 +0200
Hi
>>Is there any planned support for hexadecimal values for the Lua
>>language?
>No plans.
If someone need it, I can post my changes to the Lua parser to support
hexadecimal (and other bases) values. (But it need to be improved)
>>it would be nice to have support for this built-in.)
> Why? "Efficiency"?
Yes. I tested the speed of hex values months ago and IIRC the hex
constants are twice faster than the function X(s) return tonumber(s,16)
end. Bytecode is a little bit smaller and should compensate for the Lua
executable growth.
Bye
Mauro
