Re: The removal of function environments: An opportunity for optimization?

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

Also, don't all functions still have an _ENV upvalue? (Unless all upvalues  
can be from higher lexical scopes.)

On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:26:44 -0700, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>  
wrote:

> * Jonathan Castello:
>
> > > Today, one could lift such definitions out of the code and
> > > explicitly store them in local variables, but doing so can break
> > > the flow of the code for reading.
>
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what light C functions are?
>
> Not really, the code for Lua functions still needs to be
> garbage-collected, and this is not necessary for C functions.