Lua - If and and, what is faster?

Question

When I check two conditions with and in lua, which way is faster in running time?

if bool and somefuntion() then
    do stuff
end

or

if bool then
    if somefuntion() then
        do stuff
    end
end

?

Answer 1

Run luac -l -p on both fragments and you'll see that they generate exactly the same bytecode. So write whatever is clearer for you.

The reason they are the same is that Lua uses short-circuit evaluation for and and or, as mentioned by OllieB.

Answer 2

Lua is lazily evalulated, so it should make no difference.

The same effect would be true of short circuit logical and (&&) in c/c++