Re: Ideas for faster math in lua

[Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>]

> I use Vec3 and Quat types from the stack.  My Lua/C++ bindings take
> and return tables.  I do this because many libraries dealing with
> graphics (OpenGL etc.) take tables as arguments and I want to be able
> to pass a Vec3 into functions like gl.Vertex() without a conversion
> from a udata.  Here's a typical function:

Tables have the same problem as userdata, since they are dynamically 
allocated. Well, they are a little nicer to the garbage collector since 
they can't have __gc metamethods... but I have already patched Lua to 
address that problem :)

// Niklas