Re: The Lua interpreter and large scripts

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Roberto Ierusalimschy:

>> 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...

On i386, I presume?  Debian squeeze amd64 is fast, but the i386
version is much, much slower.  It's already used 2.5 minutes of CPU
time over here, and it's still running.