Re: binary file portability?

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:46:40 +0400
eugeny gladkih <john@gladkih.com> wrote:

>  RK> Size, simplicity and performance.  It might be nice to have
>  RK> a "blessed"  
> 
> what performance do you speak of? that's mostly a time of disk
> I/O. simplicity... it'll take a few lines of a code - maybe 50,
> maybe less. the real probles is only the size, the size of string
> literals only.

Making something that can read a generic format, especially when you're
doing with floating point numbers, is not fun.  Doing so it's fast is
even less fun.

And 50 lines of code is quite a lot in Lua terms.

B.