Re: Unpooled strings?

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chip Salzenberg"

> Indeed, I could do without a working equality operator on these strings.
> Also, I wouldn't mind if derived strings (e.g. extracted substrings) were
> interned, which means "this bit equal to that bit" would still work.
>
> > One thing that puzzles me though, is if they're constant... why not just
> > push them at the start of the program?
>
> I'm adding Lua to an existing application which processes a data stream.
> The data come in, the data go out, and they are never seen again.

Indeed it may be worth doing. Be sure to let us know how it goes :)

> > http://lua-users.org/wiki/SpeedingUpStrings
>
> Thanks again.

Welcome.

- Alex