The Anatomy of LuaJIT Tables and What's Special About Them (opens in new tab)

I don’t know about you, but I really like to get inside all sorts of systems. In this article, I’m going to tell you about the internals of Lua tables and special considerations for their use. Lua is my primary professional programming language, and if one wants to write good code, one needs at least to peek behind the curtain. If you are curious, follow me. Lua has several implementations and several versions. In this article, I’m going to discuss mostly LuaJIT 2.1.0, which is used in Tarant...