Re: No FP compile option for Lua? [was: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2]

[ramsdell@... (John D. Ramsdell)]

> The modifications you suggest do not have the desired effect of
> generated a Lua binary without floating point instructions.
> Besides, in contrast with my all integer modification, your
> modification to Lua would run number intensive applications much
> slower.

This isn't what I meant to say.  I meant to say one cannot make the
desired changes given the list of macros you listed.  Furthermore, I
bet an integer only version of Lua would run quite a bit faster on
some number intensive applications.

John