Re: Using Lua's string interning for faster compares?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> So we can rely on this behaviour and safely compare the pointer
> instead of the string itself?

Yes, but you have to make sure that the strings still exist in Lua,
that is, are not collected. One way to do that is to use them as keys
or values in a table.