Re: string.sub vs string.byte

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> You might try building a table mapping bytes to single character strings and
> running string.byte through this table. This would essentially optimize
> around the more general string interning logic Lua uses.

Thanks : allChars[strbyte(buff,n)] is about 4% faster than 
strsub(buff,n,n) in my test app. Not enough to be worth it in most 
cases, but it all adds up.

Adrian