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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Soni L. wrote:
While playing with the Lua parser I noticed OP_SELF uses an unnecessary extra register, but this is only visible if you have more than 256 constants.

    771    [258]    LOADK        3 -257    ; "print"
    772    [258]    SELF         1 1 3


This is not a bug.
Instruction "SELF 1 1 -257" is impossible due to limitation of 9 bits per constant index (operand C) for opcode SELF.
On the contrary, LOADK can address any constant using 18-bit field (field Bx).
That's why all constants except first 256 have to be passed through intermediate register.