Re: Lua persistence library?

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at 12:12 PM, Chuck Messenger wrote:

> Is there a Lua persistence library?  What I'd like is to have:
>
> int lua_save(lua_State *L, char *buf, int len);
> lua_State *lua_restore(char *buf, int len);
>
> lua_save() would write the existing VM state to buf (which
> is len bytes long).  It would return the number of bytes
> used.
>
> lua_restore() would regenerate the Lua VM state from the
> same buffer.
>
> It would be cross-platform -- that is, you could save the
> state on, say, a Mac, and restore it on a PC.
>
> Is there anything like this out there?

That would be a great feature.

Steve