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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:15:00AM +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The OpenWrt Lua is patched and uses a different bytecode format
> compared to the official vanilla Lua release.
> 
> You can find the list of used patches here:
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/lua/patches

Some of these patches terrify me.  Specifically, the opcode performance
patch.  Does that really help that much?  It's a pretty simplistic use
of computed goto to replace a pretty simple and small switch statement.

Also, the arch-independant bytecode one made me cry :(

B.