Lua memory saving tips

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Hi,
We're developing a console game that uses Lua and wanted to find out any 
memory saving tips people might have.

Currently Lua uses more memory than we would like (close to 5MB). When I 
looked into the memory allocations incurred by Lua, I was surprised at the 
volume. We have over 40,000 allocations. I created a test project to load a 
single script with no code inside.

This caused the following allocations:

72 bytes by LoadFunction > luaF_newproto
32 bytes by LoadString (seems to be the name of the file? in this case 
"Boot")
21 bytes by LoadString > luaS_newlstr (seems to be the name of the script? 
in this case also "Boot")
4 bytes by LoadLines
4 bytes by LoadCode
24 bytes by luaF_newLclosure

Is this correct? Is there a way to suppress things like the line number, 
etc.?

Once I start putting code inside the scripts, I see a similar pattern of 
allocations for each line of code (or couple of lines of code? not sure what 
causes more memory to be allocated). Any tips to help reduce the runtime 
memory would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brett