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.

>>15
I think >>14 was in support of the fact that cache-conscious code is important. He did after all say he had a point. He was just pointing out the exaggeration.

That said, performance improvements of hundreds of times is a big deal.

If you don't understand the memory model of your computational hardware, you will never be able to develop fast software for it.