Re: Ah, those uninitiated people...
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- Subject: Re: Ah, those uninitiated people...
- From: Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>
- Date: 2010年1月13日 20:10:32 +0100
2010年1月13日 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, Lua has no continue statement. Sometimes it is annoying.
>
> Today I find it annoying that there's no 'goto' ;)
>
> Yes, I know, evil of evils, but useful when you have to be _fast_.
> (Hit this one trying to do lookahead with the token filter patch)
The VM would have to be more complex to support goto, and thus slower.
I wonder if you could gain any speed at all compared to using an
algorithm suited to the current VM (with tail calls, coroutines,
etc.).
- References:
- Ah, those uninitiated people..., Alexander Gladysh
- Re: Ah, those uninitiated people..., Enrico Colombini
- Re: Ah, those uninitiated people..., Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Ah, those uninitiated people..., Andrew Wilson
- Re: Ah, those uninitiated people..., Mark Hamburg
- Re: Ah, those uninitiated people..., steve donovan