Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available (number coercion holy crusade)

[Peter Melnichenko <petjamelnik@...>]

Tim Hill wrote:
>  It already does. In fact it uses a rather clean algorithm to perform a pretty optimal number of allocations/copies during the concatenation. See PiL for more information.

IIRC starting from Lua 5.2 luaL_Buffer(used internally by table.concat) is a simple buffer, doubling in size when it overflows, and not the "Tower of Hanoi" described in PiL. 

Peter