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On 13-Jul-07, at 2:03 PM, Tony Finch wrote:


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Rici Lake wrote:


All of this is based on my theory that the cost of interning
long strings is not the interning per se, since the Lua hashing
function only examines a maximum of 32 characters.
It'll still pull the whole string into the cache if it's 2KB long or less, 
because a cache line is (usually) 64 bytes.


It would be very surprising if a newly created string wasn't
already in the cache, no?