Re: get/settable vs rawget/set

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

Tim Conkling wrote:
> If I know that a given table will never have a metatable associated with 
> it, is there a significant speed advantage to calling the "raw" table 
> functions rather than gettable and settable?

No... in fact I believe that rawget/rawset are actually slower
in practice because they incur a function call overhead; 'normal'
get/set have their own specialized vm opcodes.

--Adam
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