Re: Feedback on (awesome) performance of lua 5.4 (work1)

["Tony Papadimitriou" <tonypdmtr@...>]

On the other hand, why does this "a=os.time() for i=1,1000000000 do end 
print(os.time()-a)" run much slower on 5.4 compared to 5.3?

Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> a=os.time() for i=1,1000000000 do end print(os.time()-a)
9

Lua 5.4.0 (work1)  Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> a=os.time() for i=1,1000000000 do end print(os.time()-a)
14