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On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Egor Skriptunoff
<egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that Lua does not make an attempt to optimize
> bytecode (probably to reduce LOC of Lua sources?)
>
> -- Egor

An optimizer would be a source of bugs and complexity for not a whole
lot of practical benefit on typical workloads, so I would assume
that's the reason.

There is at least one Lua bytecode optimizer that has been released on
the list in recent history.

/s/ Adam