That might be, but the C++ array append is bounds-checked which makes it half as fast as it could be too. It would be 16ns if there is no checking. So, you are

That might be, but the C++ array append is bounds-checked which makes it half as fast as it could be too. It would be 16ns if there is no checking. So, you are right but I am trying to do a balanced approach here. These benchmarks are made for me, and I want to write (more or less) normal code. I don't want to write local table_insert = ... I'd rather drop Lua for something else then. That said, it's cool that there are things you can do to speed things up if you really have to.