Re: Plans for version 5.0?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Perhaps Lua 5 might need string buffers (growable buffer of
> characters), so that string manipulation becomes more efficient. I
> read somewhere (but forgot the URL) that Lua performs very well (w.r.t
> other scripting languages) except for string manipulation. But I may
> be wrong!

It is quite easy to implement a string buffer in Lua itself; see 
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/strcat/strcat.lua

-- Roberto