LUA is FFOC

LUA is the toy language for those who enjoy the Forced Flushing Of L1/L2 Cache per operation. In fact, every operation causes several L2 cache misses during table look-ups, flushing both the L1 and L2 caches.

http://www.slideshare.net/hughreynolds/optimizing-lua-for-consoles-allen-murphy-microsoft

Enjoy your FFOC.

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Lexical closures still require more space per slot than a properly-packed zomg-optimized structure. Just saying, I'm an avid defender of closures but I don't find that they are a proper replacement for structs.