Re: Performance improvement in luaL_addlstring

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On 2010-03-15, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > It would be great if this patch (or its equivalent) makes its way into
>  > official Lua-5.1.4 patch list at http://www.lua.org/bugs.html
>
>
> Why? It's not a bug, is it?
>

Technically speaking it is not a bug. However, it is an obvious
performance improvement that would benefit many people who use Lua
(socket, COPAS, etc) for TCP servers. As far as I know the only
official place for in-between-release patches is
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html. Where else should this patch go?
How about http://www.lua.org/patches.html ??

--Leo--

P.S. On closer inspection http://www.lua.org/bugs.html does include
performance related fixes. E.g.: Lua-5.1.4 #6:

6. GC may get stuck during parsing and avoids proper resizing of the
string table, making its lists grow too much and degrading
performance.