Luau's Performance Optimization Approach for Gameplay Code

One of main goals of Luau is to enable high performance code, with gameplay code being the main use case.

Both of these goals are important - it’s insufficient to just focus on the highly tuned code, and all things being equal we prefer to raise all boats by implementing general optimizations.

Worth noting is that Luau is focused on, first and foremost, stable high performance code in interpreted context. This is because JIT compilation is not available.