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> Perhaps what you are saying is that as there are no symbolic
> constants in Lua, it is not possible to generate optimized switch
> statements for all but the simplest scenario where the switch cases
> are literals?

Exactly. (These cases are not only simplest, but usually considered bad
code. If we add a switch optimized only for literals, its impact in code
standards for Lua would be a tragedy...)

-- Roberto