Re: How to clone a table in LJ2-friendly way?

[Mike Pall <mikelu-1108@...>]

Geoff Leyland wrote:
> (What I don't understand in this case is why a trace was never
> even attempted for the pairs loop)

The parser generates different bytecodes when it recognizes
pairs()/next() in an iterator loop. I.e. this is already optimized
at the interpreter level. There's no point in triggering the
compiler for this kind of loop since it wouldn't compile, anyway.

--Mike