Re: Lack of bytecode optimization in Lua

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 12.03.2017 21:35, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> It seems that Lua does not make an attempt to optimize
> bytecode (probably to reduce LOC of Lua sources?)
>
> -- Egor
For code that is only executed once (or few times), the time tom 
optimize might be larger than the benefit from optimizing. If you want 
to optimize Lua code, it should be an optional flag (like -o? in GCC). 
But than again, the common argument is, if you want to be really fast, 
you may just use C.
--
Thomas