On 20 November 2012 08:24, Ian Price <ianpric...@googlemail.com> 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>
