Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) now available

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

Hello,
is there any performance gains in this release (pure raw speed, less
memory consuming - not that the current one has, just to to know - ) ?

thanks,
valerio

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Consider the following code.  I expect it to print "bad" once, but it
>> does so many times.  The manual is a little unclear, but seems to
>> imply that xpcall(f, err) only puts f in protected mode.  It shouldn't
>> catch errors in err.  Does that make sense? [...]
>
> It may make sense for the particular case of xpcall, but this behavior
> comes from the more primitive lua_pcall, and it is difficult to change
> one without changing the other.
>
> For lua_pcall, this behavior seems better than the alternative (to
> raise errors from 'err'). It ensures that lua_pcall never raises
> an error.
>
> -- Roberto
>
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