Re: proposal for reading individual characters from strings faster

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On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Liam Devine <liamdevine@oolua.org> wrote:

> You want to make string.byte to be run compile time when literal chars
> are seen, yet have you considered bytecode? I ask because the manual
> clearly states [1] "Numerical codes are not necessarily portable across
> platforms."

That is a definite concern/negativity -- this would benefit people who
distribute Lua source and not compiled bytecode.  Most of us are
dealing with ASCII which is quite common, but I do realize that EBCDIC
is still out there...