Why would this Lua optimization hack help?
- by Ian Boyd
i'm looking over a document that describes various techniques to improve performance of Lua script code, and i'm shocked that such tricks would be required. (Although i'm quoting Lua, i've seen similar hacks in Javascript).
Why would this optimization be required:
For instance, the code
for i = 1, 1000000 do
local x = math.sin(i)
end
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