Re: bit.lshift and performance - luabitop v.s. lua-5.2.0-work4

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 10/13/2010 6:05 PM, Mike Pall wrote:
> KHMan wrote:
> > I think compression/decompression routines written in Lua is more
> > suitable for prototyping work and hence performance is not a
> > critical issue -- it's not for any real "normal user" apps, is it?
> >
> > Heavens, before long, someone will lobby for tweaks to run FFT or
> > DCT in Lua...
>
> Why do you think so? Is this some kind of prevalent inferiority
> complex with users of scripting languages? That it's somehow 'bad'
> to implement such functionality using Lua?

*yawn* oh cool, looks like I successfully pressed some buttons

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia