Re: The Lua interpreter and large scripts

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo once stated:
> >   I think I can do that, but it probably won't be until Friday when I get a
> > chance to randomize the data in the huge file (it's the headers of a ton of
> > email since 1991).  
> 
> Changing the data will probably change the problem if it's related to hashing.

  Apparently, changing the data did not change the behavior problems.  And
this does mean I've made available the problematic scripts.  If anyone wants
to try their hand at debugging this, you can download the scripts (plus some
output from gprof) at

	http://www.flummxux.org/lua-big-script.tar.gz

  Warning:  it's a 14M download.  

  -spc