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- Subject: Re: table library changes (was Re: table.new in 5.3?)
- From: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:37:44 -0600
On Thursday, November 28, 2013, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> The math library is the one that I end up wrapping/patching/extending the
> most. Much of that would not happen at all, if it were written in Lua,
> because Lua will use metamethods and the efficiency that you are gaining
> from the C implementation comes mostly from this loss in flexibility.
Are you really proposing implementing sin, cos, etc in Lua?
That is the opposite of what I meant. The speed of C comes from avoiding code that brings value. This is the trade off, not because C is so different. And that tradeoff doesn't seem to have been arbitrarily made, to me.
-Andrew
