Re: Audience for globals discussion?

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

> When we speak of registers are we talking about the CPU's registers? Lua 
> is quite abstracted from ASM, isn't it fairly hard to tell which 
> variables actually end up in the registers even with C?

No we're not talking about CPU registers. The Lua virtual machine is 
known as a register-based VM. The Wikipedia article on Lua probably 
explains it better than I can:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#Internals

 - Peter Odding