Re: Drawing the line between speed and simplicity/elegance

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> In fact, C structs in LuaJIT are incredibly fast, and one of the first
> suggestions for improving the performance of code in LuaJIT is to
> switch from using tables to using structs when it's possible to do so
> cleanly, even if you aren't invoking any FFI calls.

And this is a main point in making LuaJIT a quite different language
from Lua (long before the release of 5.2... :-).

-- Roberto