Re: The Lua interpreter and large scripts

[Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@...>]

results for all variants:

lua <<< 'dofile("show.lua"); dofile("default.lua"); os.exit()'  4.28s user 0.42s system 99% cpu 4.703 total

lua <<< 'dofile("default.lua"); dofile("show.lua"); os.exit()'  4.31s user 0.34s system 98% cpu 4.730 total

Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> dofile("show.lua"); os.exit()
lua -i default.lua <<< 'dofile("show.lua"); os.exit()'  4.36s user 0.37s system 99% cpu 4.772 total

Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> dofile("default.lua"); os.exit()
lua -i show.lua <<< 'dofile("default.lua"); os.exit()'  4.28s user 0.37s system 99% cpu 4.655 total


So running show.lua before default.lua is a bit faster for me than the
other way around, but all are in the same ballpark (+- 3% or so)

</nk>