Re: Extending Lua in C, was RE: External modules

["Bram Vaessen" <bram.vaessen@...>]

> I understand and sympathize with people feeling weary at having to recode
> their changes of the internals of Lua each time a new version comes out.
While
> we do make every effort to maintain compatibility of Lua code, it's very
hard,
> if not impossible, to maintain any kind of code-level compatibility for
the
> core implementation. Any attempt at this could compromise our goals of
size
> and speed. The prime example is the VM, which is an implementation tool,
not
> an iron-cast concept, and so we feel free to change it if this will make
Lua
> faster and smaller.

I agree with this. Performance is more important then compatibility with
previous versions.