Re: Lua: Performance

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

... and that's their responsibility, not lua's... It's up to them to do 
proper research subtle language differences, imo..

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Manish Jain wrote:
>
> > 2) we are using very less number of global variables.
>
> Remember that global variable usage can be subtle for those coming 
> from other languages. For example, calling string.format takes two 
> table lookups in addition to the function call. If you cache 
> string.format in a local variable, you eliminate those.
>
> Mark