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How does that work, if the strings are literals, not LUA vars ?

s = "TAG1"
if s=="TAG1" then ... end
<some code>
if s=="TAG1" then ... end

unless the lua compiler builds a stringtable of literals, it cannot know
that the three "TAG1" literals are the same, eg have identical pointers.


Lua does build the string table. The 3 occurances of "TAG1" above all get mapped to the same entry.

Ashwin.
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