Re: Performance vs flexibility

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 08/01/15 10:11 AM, Marco Bambini wrote:
> Hello,
> one of the criticisms about Lua is the way it uses globals (using an hash table instead of a regular array and so performance suffers when globals are accessed).
>
> I just wondering what's behind that design decision, I mean what's the pro and cons of having an hash table for globals instead of a simpler array?
> Thanks a lot.
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How would you index it? _ENV[1]("this would print") _ENV[2]("this would 
return a string") etc?

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