[NTG-context] protected macro vs protected luacall

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/27/2023 10:35 AM, Henri Menke via ntg-context wrote:

> Thanks, this is indeed the workaround that I currently use. However,
> the downside is that this has to tokenize the contents of \directlua
> every time (and is therefore susceptible to surrounding \catcode
> shenanigans) and it expands in at minimum two steps, whereas a luacall
> always expands in a single step. But I guess that's what I will have to
> live with.
on my 2018 laptop, with

   function FoO() end

this

   \directlua{FoO()}}

takes 0.0000014 seconds so probably the least of your worries compared 
to other macro and lua magic

Hans

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