Re: comments, line numbers and storing a file in a single string

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

(to the original author)

Have you considered compiling the scripts once you read them in, and  
keeping the precompiled versions in the strings. This would give even  
better performance, and (maybe) less memory consumption.

See the 'luac' utility for how to precompile scripts, or just pipe  
things through it?

If there's a fixed number of scripts and they don't change much,  
people do luac -> bin2c -> c #include, thus compiling everything in  
the binary itself.

-asko


Terry Bayne kirjoitti 11.12.2007 kello 19:34:

> I wrote
> > add a line break appropriate to your system after each line
>
> What I meant is that you for each line you read from your file, you  
> need to append the appropriate line break before storing that line  
> in the string that contains the entire text of the file.
>
> Terry