Re: On lua5 and embedding
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- Subject: Re: On lua5 and embedding
- From: "Thomas Wrensch" <twrensch@...>
- Date: 2003年1月29日 15:22:51 -0800
>>> lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br 01/29/03 11:00 AM >>>
>>I modified the timing code to use x:fact(10) and the
>>time was slightly FASTER at 8.44 seconds.
> Probably because now you're indexing a local variable
> ("self")...
>
> Try
> local function fact(n)
>
> in the original code...
> --lhf
Actually, I think there's more to it. While 'self' is a local variable,
it is a table itself, and 'fact' is looked up in that table.
Moreover, the 'self' table is an empty table. Each lookup of 'fact'
should require:
lookup 'fact' in 'self' which fails
check for a metatable, which exists
lookup __index in the metatable
since __index is a table, lookup 'fact' there
I assumed the small increase in speed was due to the size of the tables
involved. Or am I missing something?
- Tom