Re: Object or table?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 26/08/2011 16.31, Stefan Reich wrote:
> Ah. Thanks for the feedback on that! I am going for a simpler solution
> as of now, which is just to test for presence of a metatable.
>
> When I create Lua objects these days, I am lazy and just put the
> methods in the table directly. I don't know if it was smarter to do it
> any other way, but it's convenient and it works. Probably memory
> efficiency would be the main reason to collect things in common
> metatables, right?

I'm not an expert of Lua internals, but I read somewhere that IIRC there 
is also a cache for metatables. Thus adding methods to individual 
objects may also impact performance. Not sure though.

> Cheers,
> Stefan

-- Lorenzo