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

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 10/13/2010 7:36 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> KHMan writes:
> > *yawn* oh cool, looks like I successfully pressed some buttons
>
> No doubt, but read Mike's other (long) message -- he makes some
> excellent points...

That has largely been posted before. Nothing new. I have always 
left that to Roberto & co.

If you thought I stepped on your pet snake, then of course you 
will yelp at me. I would too. (Poor analogy, sorry, ha ha.)

Doing stuff like coding in terms of bit.band(blah blah), 
bit.lshift(blah blah), and so on is largely more tedious. Most 
developers will not be doing stuff like implementing compression 
in Lua for 'normal' apps. Of course, it has never stopped anyone 
before. Even I have coded the deflate CRC before...

Anyway most app developers do not need to code DCTs and FFTs 
nowadays. Those who need them should be matured enough that they 
know what they are doing (hopefully) and don't need me to tell 
them anything. So it was just conversational bait, and not in any 
sense targeting anything.

No big deal to have different opinions -- I would be very afraid 
if everyone just nod their heads like zombies all the time. So I 
have said my spiel, I'll let you guys have all the fun now ;-)

--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia