Re: lua-vec - Lua with vectors

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

Hi Henri,

Missed the swizzling, I like it. Unfortunately..

> Yes, we would also like to see our patch integrated into LuaJIT and we are 
> looking forward into it.

LuaJIT 2.x is clever enough that it stores all values including type info 
and even on 64 bit architectures in just 8 bytes.  Again with the number of 
stack copies Lua does - and the fact that the array component of a table 
needs to be able to hold every type of value (ie that's 8 bytes per value 
even for an array of boolean) that's a very nice property to have.

If it can't be made garbage collected, Value size is doubled =( and it'd be 
a massive change to Jit 2.x.  It might not be as slow as you think - a 
dedicated gc type is a lot faster then userdata, which has a lot of extra gc 
backend to do with finalizers, environment tables etc.  Only other idea that 
comes to mind is half precision.. but that's pretty limited.

I do like the extension though ;)

- Alex