lua_compilestring()

[Oscar Lazzarino <osk@...>]

Hallo

I have this problem: In my program I have a small script which is entered by the user at runtime. I then execute that script MANY times, but I don't want do do MANY lua_dostring, since this would "recompile" the script every time. It would be nice to have a way to translate the script only once, with an hypothetical lua_compilestring, and then call lua_dobuffer. How can I do this? At the moment I'm using a temporary file, and calling luac via fork, execve, wait (I'm using linux), etc. Is there some better way? (I also thought about putting the script into a lua function, lua_dostring only once and then call the function when needed)

Thanks

Oscar Lazzarino