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On 6/6/07, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:
... I believe the difference is because I made 'composite' an array with contiguous numerical indexes, with optimized access in Lua 5.1 (direct offset computing), while in the previous code, Lua probably has to make more complex tests (hashing the index?) to see if the slot is empty ...
Might be a stupid question, but would the optimization apply even if the first index was, say, 1296?