Re: Next Version of Lua?

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Olivier Hamel<evilpineapple@cox.net> wrote:
[...]
> > * C Std Lib: More powerful support for format/additional functions like
> > string split/explode (Only if there is enough interest? Is anyone interested
> > in that anyways?)
>
> They're very useful, but pure Lua implementations are usually fast enough.

Once lrexlib had rex.gsub implemented in Lua (with internal 
concatenation of string pieces via table.concat). Reimplementing 
rex.gsub in C made it about 20 times faster.

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Shmuel