30 Oct
2017
30 Oct
'17
5:57 p.m.
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?