Re: The meaning of 'sugar' [Forked from Re: Why do we have ipairs?]

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

Constants and locals have roughly the same performance in the Lua VM:
both are stored in C arrays. The only difference is that the maximum
number of locals is much smaller than the maximum number of constants.

I've posted a token filter that expanded constants at compile time:
	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-05/msg00480.html