Re: Varargs efficiency

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 18/04/15 12:18 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How are varargs implemented? Are they array-backed, or
> > linkedlist-backed? I'd think a linkedlist-backed approach would be
> > better/faster:
>    Have you tried measuring both approaches?
No, not really
>    It sounds like you work a lot with varargs [2].
>
> -spc (Have you tried programming in Lisp? [1])
> [1] From all the posts you make here, I get the impression you would 
> do far better programming in Lisp than in Lua (or any other non-Lisp 
> language). Every crazy thing you want to do is possible in Lisp. But 
> that's just my impression.
> [2] What are you trying to do anyway? Create some form of virtual Lua 
> environment?
I'm trying to make a Forth VM, using varargs as the stack.
> [3] I don't use it often. I just checked my own codebase at work, and 
> out of 18,204 lines of Lua, only 17 uses of varargs, and only 4 of 
> those do not deal with logging of some sort (calling either print(...) 
> or f:write(...) or some variation on that). 

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