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On Friday 22 September 2006 3:58 pm, Mike Pall wrote:
> Note that the main speed disadvantage of functions vs. operators
> (around 5x) in interpreted Lua is due to the call frame setup and
> teardown overhead. One way to speed this up would be to add
> "frameless" C functions which operate in the frame of the caller.
> Especially trivial functions (math.*) would benefit a lot.

that seems like a much neater idea than the current discussion

-- 
Javier

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