Re: optimisation question

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Wim Couwenberg wrote:
> And on a more trivial note: if you use table.insert in a loop, make it a
> local first.  This saves two table lookups per iteration.

I think that's true, and probably a fair optimization for
this inner loop -- but in the general case I don't think
it's an optimization worth bothing with in Lua5 -- right?

I think that the speed improvement from a local-cached
function reference is barely measurable now, at least when I
did a halfhearted test.  I suppose something improved a lot
in Lua5, and/or it does this automagically (but that doesn't
sound likely).

--Adam
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