RE: Progressively worse performance from a table

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>Could this code be made faster by making "word" a local variable?
>
>local word;
>for word in io.lines("/usr/dict/words") do

No, because the control variables in a for loop are already local (to the
scope of the for loop). See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#2.4.5 

--lhf