Compiler Optimizations

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly@...>]

I'm curious what kind of compiler optimizations Lua does when creating
the byte code, if any?

e.g.

x = 5 *  32 * i

becomes

x = 160 * i

internally.

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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