Re: Is Lua the next big thing?

[roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)]

> A furiously fast (but still pleasant on the eyes :) serialization  
> function would indeed be handy.  The multicore performance seems to  
> be largely dependent on serialization speed.
> 
> Of course, this only applies if tables are used for passing things  
> over. But -then again- Lua is all about tables, so they should be  
> efficiently and transparently usable in multicore applications, too.
> 
> What Say Lua Authors on this?

You mean adding table serialization to the core libraries? The problem
is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. A robust serialization
is not good for visualization, cycle handling slows down the algorithm,
etc.

-- Roberto