[RFC] Use binary search for all lookups #1226
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@alexandergall has been seeing problems due to the branchiness of the linear probe for ctable lookups. This branch attempts to see if using the generated binary search helpers instead of linear probe in Lua fixes this problem.
I suspect it doesn't fix the problem, as this snabbmark shows:
Compare to the results before (see the lookup_ptr case):
But, who knows!