On Saturday 04 June 2005 3:45 pm, Mike Pall wrote: > Hi, > > This is an experimental patch against Lua 5.1-work6 to add support > for "fast strings" to the Lua VM. how would these fast strings behave as table keys? i'm guessing it'll be similar to already-interned strings, am i right? a related question: on a fetch like table.key, is the 'key' string interned at compile time, or runtime? what about table.["key"]? (with "key" a constant string). in Xavante there are several of these queries, and i'd like to know if there's a performance advantage in either one. -- Javier
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