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- Subject: Re: patch: C-style string lexing
- From: Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:21:45 -0800
on 1/31/08 11:02 AM, Eric Tetz at erictetz@gmail.com wrote:
> It's certainly no burden to *type*, but I think most programmers
> find it unappealing to incur a performance penalty for the sake
> of source beautification. If you've got 50 lines, Lua's creating
> 48 strings of intermediate garbage just to concatenate them,
> right?
That's why we need constant folding in the compiler so that the compiled
code only has one string.
Mark
