Re: A proposal for faster userdata type checking

["Taj Khattra" <taj.khattra@...>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Chris <coderight@gmail.com> wrote:
>  fine but luaL_checkudata adds a significant amount of overhead when
>  making heavy use of calls that need to check userdata types (which is
>  very important when creating "safe" APIs).

did you compare the performance of storing the metatable in the C function
environment instead of the registry?

i seem to recall mike pall posting some performance numbers comparing
the two approaches, but google is failing me at the moment.