fix: cleanup and optimization of common lua funcs #646

Job	Run time
🚨 Lua lint	18s
🚨 C lint	22s
🚨 REUSE Compliance	11s
🐧 Linux build	1m 11s
🪟 Windows build	57s
🍎 Macosx build	2m 10s
🐯 js build & checks (14.x)	4m 18s
🥷 meson/ninja build (meson-ccache)	1m 54s
🐯 js build & checks (16.x)	3m 47s
🦀 rust build & checks (stable)	1m 12s
🥷 meson/ninja build (meson-clang-ccache)	2m 37s
🐹 go build & checks (1.13)	1m 13s
🦀 rust build & checks (nightly)	1m 20s
🐯 js build & checks (18.x)	3m 40s
🐹 go build & checks (1.14)	1m 7s
🐹 go build & checks (1.15)	59s
🐹 go build & checks (1.16)	54s
🐹 go build & checks (1.19)	46s
🐍 Python checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.8)	1m 10s
🐍 Python checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.9)	57s
🐍 Python checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	58s
🐍 Python checks (macos-latest, 3.8)	2m 2s
🐍 Python checks (macos-latest, 3.9)	1m 53s
🐍 Python checks (macos-latest, 3.10)	2m 9s
🤖 Semantic release	0s
🗃️ Check file changes	0s
🐯 js build release	0s
🐧 Binary builds on Ubuntu	0s
🍎 mac osx release build	0s
🐍 Python create source distribution	0s
📦 npm release	0s
📦 Pack release	0s
🧻 Remove tag on fail	0s
📦 PyPI release	0s
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