Re: Request for 5.4: adding [] as table creation syntax for Lua 6.0

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 14.07.2016 um 14:22 schröbte Egor Skriptunoff:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
> > What performance penalty?
>
>
> Lua pushes all the arguments to the stack to invoke S(1,2,3),
> and inside S() Lua pushes them AGAIN for constructing a table.
> "VARARG" bytecode is not O(1) instruction, it was discussed earlier in this
> list.

There's no VARARG bytecode involved in this case, it's just a plain 
function call. Yes, a function call is O(n), but so is constructing a table.

Philipp