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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: Metatables for primitives performance?
From:       "Paul Chiusano" <paul.chiusano () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-03-28 14:43:39
Message-ID: a9af71b70603280643s55ebea73i10306cd0e289e04a () mail ! gmail ! com
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> > Also, I notice that overriding any of the operator
> > metamethods (like __div) for numbers has no effect. Is this for
> > performance reasons?
>
> Yes, very much so. Requiring a check for every primitive
> operation on numbers would slow Lua to a crawl.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks.

-Paul

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