Re: luac limitations

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mike Pall wrote:
> [snip snip]
> > [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?

You're going to hit the sBx limit too, for all those jump 
instructions. I don't think the Lua VM bytecode is designed for 
segments of code that large...

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