avoid some unnecessary allocations
To find the first word we currently strip all Lua comments. This is really wasteful for large definitions. At least avoid all these allocations if the first word is not a comment.
Created by akkartik on July 24, 2023
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Insertion in live.lua at line 233 [4.722]
Replacement in live.lua at line 238 [4.722]
return buf:gsub('%-%-[^\n]*', ''):match('^%s*(%S+)')-- Return the first word, after skipping Lua comments.if not buf:match('^%s*%-%-') thenreturn buf:match('^%s*(%S+)') -- avoid unnecessary allocationsend-- wastefully strip out comments everywhere, not just at the startbuf = buf:gsub('%-%-[^\n]*', '') -- line commentsreturn buf:match('^%s*(%S+)')