Re: Issues with the current varargs implementation (Was: Re: inadequate documentation for select and table.unpack)

[Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@...>]

On 16-06-23 04:41 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> I am reminded of my colleague Andrzej Dąbrowski from the late
> 1960's. He knew the number of machine cycles used by every
> instruction on the IBM System 360 Model 40, and the exact machine
> code that every line of Fortran compiled to. No matter how fast any
> of the rest of us could make a program run, he could always find
> a way to make it (slightly) faster.
> 
I'd use him as precompiler's optimizer.