Re: Lua script file size problem

On 8/16/07, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:

I don't think lua has a limit like that - more likely some problem
assembling the buffer on the receive end before you load it into lua.

try dumping what you receive to disk as well before loading it into
lua.  Then you can see if you have any buffer accumulation issues etc

Adrien

Lucas Teixeira wrote:
> > Sure it's a hack.  You could partition the file so that it doesn't
> > change the meaning of anything and run loadstring on the chunks.  I'm
> > not sure how you could figure out where to chop it though.
>
> I thought about this solution.
> But I guess it is a "buggy" solution. Doing this, probably, something
> will be wrong in the code and a lot of bugs will appear from nowhere. :D
>
> But still being a solution anyway.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lucas Teixeira
>
> On 8/16/07, *Lucas Teixeira* <loteixeira@gmail.com
> <mailto:loteixeira@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Could you write it to file and call luaL_dofile?
>
>     > wes
>
>     Actually I tryed this and a unhandled exception is thrown by the
>     application.
>     And one more time I have no idea what is causing this :)
>
>     But if still not working I will try this solution.
>
>     Lucas
>
>
>     On 8/16/07, *Lucas Teixeira * < loteixeira@gmail.com
>     <mailto:loteixeira@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         The application loads the whole lua file. Then the application
>         parses it.
>         Actually this test that I am doing is reading a file from my
>         own computer, I just have a adaptor class that simulates a
>         network transfer and load a local file.
>
>         The problem isnt network transfering, the test is reading a
>         file from my computer, opening it using fopen storing all the
>         content on a const char* buffer and passing it to lua.
>
>         Lucas
>
>
>         On 8/16/07, *Edwin Eyan Moragas* <haaktu@gmail.com
>         <mailto:haaktu@gmail.com >> wrote:
>
>             On 8/16/07, Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk
>             <mailto:lua-l@nun.org.uk>> wrote:
>             > Wesley Smith top-posted:
>             > > Could you write it to file and call luaL_dofile?
>             >
>             > This strikes me as an inelegant hack, if the data's
>             coming over the network.
>             >
>             > Does the Lua API support incremental parsing, such that
>             you can keep
>             > calling a function to pump more data in, and then signal
>             the end?
>             >
>
>
>             parsing a lua lib file sounds like incremental parsing.
>
>             why not send the source one file at a time then the
>             calling code
>             as the last?
>
>             --
>             no sig
>
>
>
>

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