Re: Guile Lua

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 20 November 2012 08:24, Ian Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm no expert on lua, so I can't give you a huge long list, but Phil did
> make a post titled "Creating a Lua Roadmap" at
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/12291
>
> The first issues would be them. There appears to be a notes.org in the
> modules/language/lua directory, so compare with that, but I expect the
> roadmap covered that. Then it would be a matter of working through the
> lua manual, and seeing what else is missing.

Add to these lists that (language lua) does not implement the
table–array optimization [1].  This would be an interesting early task
for someone as the algorithm is relatively simple.  Without it the
performance of “arrays”  will be poor.

[1] <http://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf>