Re: Simple way to create a big string of blanks?

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

Then it would be nice to add that detail! PIL goes into detail about the 
performance penalty of doing great numbers of concatenations.

Thanks,

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Simple way to create a big string of blanks?


> > I actually didn't try using string.rep() because I veered away when I 
> > read
> > its documentation that said it "concatenates". So it did not sound like 
> > the
> > tool to use.
>
> What is missing in the docs is the implementation detail that lua_concat
> is very efficient.