Re: Function calls [was: Lua and Neko comparison]

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 28-Sep-06, at 4:16 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> I picked an example of a function where the function-call overhead 
> could
> be annoying, purely for the sake of giving you an opportunity to 
> explain
> what kind of "higher-level interface" you were thinking of.

Well, I hope I answered that, in that case. The sort of higher-level 
interface I was thinking of was:

regex on utf-8 strings

rendersize of utf-8 strings

mousehit in rendered strings

etc.