Re: Speed of Lua's immutable strings vs buffers (split from Re: Pooling of strings is good)

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Back the days where the list was heavily loaded with arguments about
> #-operator and broken sequences ("arrays with holes") a rule was concluded:
> if you make a suggestion and expect the core team to take their time with
> it, take your time and provide a patch with your suggestion.

My suggestion was not something I could do myself.  I wanted an
interface provided by upstream to have userdata look like strings
where lua_isstring() or similar are used.  Quick, lemme go figure out
an anti-gravity device because that's what I'm suggesting now --
should be done by mid-afternoon.