Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 06.05.2014 22:21 schröbte Roberto Ierusalimschy:
> > A very minor thing, but putting `hash` before `len` and `hnext` in
> > the definition of `TString` saves 8 bytes per string on my machine
> > where `sizeof( size_t) == 8` and `sizeof( unsigned int ) == 4`
> > (Linux x86_64). This should be safe for all architectures where
> > `sizeof( size_t ) >= sizeof( unsigned int )`, and I don't know if
> > there are machines out there where this isn't true ...
>
> Many thanks. (I believe the same is true about field 'sizearray' in
> 'struct Table'.)

Confirmed: 56 bytes instead of 64 when `sizearray` is above `metatable`. 
This also works for Lua 5.2, btw.

> -- Roberto

Philipp