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

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Mike Pall <mikelu-1010@mike.de> writes:
>>   bit.lshift (NUM, bit.band (COUNT, 31))
>> 
>> [instead of plain "bit.lshift (NUM, COUNT)"]
>
> Oh, sure. ;-) Because absolutely everyone is just waiting to
> rewrite all of their code with that bloat.

How much highly speed-critical Lua bitop-shift-using code is out there
anyway?  Probably not all that much, I'd wager.

> Not gonna happen.

That really isn't clear....

-Miles

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