Yes. Lua is a very small and orthogonal language, so even tiny improvements in one part of it help most programs. For example, if you've figured out a small i

Yes. Lua is a very small and orthogonal language, so even tiny improvements in one part of it help most programs. For example, if you've figured out a small increase in reading a value from a table, you have sped up all other data structures, OO code, etc., because the table is used for everything.