Re: LuaJIT2 performance for number crunching

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Erik Lindroos wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> >
> > When steve donovan proposed a "const" keyword earlier today, I wondered if
> > LuaJIT was able to spot that a local is only assigned to once so it could
> > automatically treat it as const.
>
> Locals can also be modified with the debug library, constants cannot.

AIUI LuaJIT assumes you won't violate its assumptions like that.

Tony.
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