Re: how does lua arrange vmcase?

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2017-04-04 12:51 PM, Xianfu Pan wrote:
> AFAIK, cases are sensitive of orders in C language. switch (?) case 
> XXX:break; case YYY:break;
>
> vmcase(OP_MOVE) is before vmcase(OP_LOADK)  before   vmcase(OP_LOADKX) 
> then vmcase(OP_LOADBOOL) followed?
>
> why such order?  frequency order? or any other considerations?
>
> lua_execute is hot point of lua performance. if of frequency 
> considerations, I guess, why not write a Huffman tree's binary search 
> instead of vmcase's linar search?
>
> best regards to all.

Linear?

It should be O(1) (aka constant), not O(n) (aka linear)...

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