Re: another hat in the ring regarding Lua 5.2: static typing

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Pall"


> As you can see this can get arbitrarily complex. But I realize
> I'll have to add this optimization sooner or later. It's the only
> way to get good performance for methods written in OO-style.
>
> --Mike

It'd definitely be the most noticeable optimization that one could make to 
lua. Although I much rather that it's you and not me. Things like

setmetatable(t, { __newindex = function(t,k,v) rawset(t, "sqrt", v) })

would send me running as far away from the project as I can get =/. 
Definitely arbitrarily complex ;)

It sounds fair that the debug library (may) only work from within the 
interpreter. Particularly if jit can be selectively disabled (I'm not sure 
how that goes on a tracing jiter though).

Anyway, best of luck.

- Alex