Re: The Lua interpreter and large scripts

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On my system[1], I get the following:
> 
> defiant:/tmp/lua-big-script% time lua -i show.lua <<EOF
> dofile("default.lua")
> os.exit()
> EOF
> 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()'  4.33s user 0.33s
> system 99% cpu 4.667 total
> defiant:/tmp/lua-big-script% 

Mine took about 8 minutes...

-- Roberto