Re: luac limitations

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > is there a limitation in luac?
> > >
> > > luac: constant table overflow
> > >
> > > (some 140.000 table entries)
> > There is a limitation (both in luac and lua), but it
> > should be almost twice this size (2^18)...
>
> He's probably using key = "value" pairs (two constants per entry). :-)

indeed, basically a "return { key1=value1, ... }"

> [To clarify: it's a limit on the number of constants for the code of a
> single function, which in turn limits the size of a single table
> constructor. There's no limit (other than memory) for the number of
> elements in a table. Gigabyte-sized tables get a bit unwieldy, though.]

is there a reason for this limitation?

Hans