> Luigi and I are currently looking into Lua 5.3 in combination with 
> LuaTeX. We have an experimental setup and all seems to work well,
> which 
> given the new number model of Lua is good news. Depending on how we 
> compile the binaries we either gain some speed or in the worst case 
> loose half the performance but that will be sorted out one of these
> days 
> as we know where to look.
> 

Does the integer subtype give significant performance gains when you
can use integers instead of floats?

What are the main reasons for the switch?
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