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Re:How fast are Linux pipes anyway? by yakubin on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:35AM (#31595408)
> They all go slightly faster if you localize the reference to `io.write`

No noticeable difference for LuaJIT, which makes sense, since JIT should figure it out without help.

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Re:How fast are Linux pipes anyway? by bjoli on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:44PM (#31598944)
And this, folks, is why you have immutable modules. If you know before runtime what something is, lookup is a lot faster.
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Re:How fast are Linux pipes anyway? by VWWHFSfQ on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:01AM (#31595739)
Ah yes you're right. Basically no difference with LuaJIT.

5.1 and 5.4 show about ~8% improvement.

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