Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-01-08 10:14 PM, Paige DePol wrote:
> Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:38 PM Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Clearly you have not seen this yet.
> > http://blog.ionoclast.com/2015/05/the-future-of-firth-pre-alpha2-and-beyond/
> >
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> > MY EYES!
> >
> > Seriously, that background makes the page completely unreadable.
> Selecting all the text on the page made it considerably more readable!
>
> However, I am unsure why you linked to that page in the first place?
>
> The page author has quite an interesting project, but it appears they
> are targeting LuaJIT... which if memory serves is already implementing
> tables and other objects using memory arenas, which helps improve all
> memory management quite a considerable amount.
>
> ~Paige
And Lua 5.2, which was my use-case at the time. I actually talked a lot 
about this back then. (I'd love to see a hybrid between stack-based 
varargs and table-based varargs some day. or maybe just more table and C 
stack optimizations. imagine if pure-lua table.unpack was nontrivially 
faster than the most optimal C-based table.unpack! imagine if the C 
stack was "lazy-allocated" such that select() is O(1)! maybe some day...)

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