question on the patch FastString

[Andrea <andrea.l.vitali@...>]

(this copied from one of my previous email on lstring.c)

I had a look at an old post by Mike Pall: http://lua-users.org/wiki/FastStringPatch

question is: it makes a lot of sense to manage very short strings as Lua manages doubles/int64

Why this solution has been discarded for recent versions of Lua? 

(source and executable grow of course but benchmarks done in 2007 seems to show an advantage)

    Andrea

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Andrea Vitali