Re: worst case time using hash-tables in Lua

[Philippe Verdy <verdyp@...>]

> And the Lua compiler could even eliminate "dead code" trying to assign a value to a variable that is never reused later.

That's a slippery slope. You could say it can eliminate the call to
the creation functions

I did not say that: the calls to creation functions is not "dead code", it is still performed. Only the assignment (storage) of the return value into a local variable can be safely eliminated.

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