Re: How to deal with massive tables

[Glenn McAllister <glenn@...>]

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> Glenn wrote:
> > The short short version of my problem is that I have a massive table
> > with 100000+ entries (where each entry is a small table with five
> > elements), populated in C code, which has then been serialized from a
> > Lua script. When I deserialize it I get a 'constant table overflow'
> > error.  If I cut the number of entries down to around 55000, no
> > error.    
>
> The answer is in the mailing list archive, as often:
>
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-06/msg00231.html

Yeah, I deserved that.  I usually think to do that first, but in my 
haste I took longer to write the email than searching the archives would 
probably have taken.  Doh!

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