Re: LuaJIT2 and lua_dump()

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Conner
Date: 3/2/2010 2:19 PM
> It was thus said that the Great Joshua Jensen once stated:
>    
> > (Already done... so I guess I should add that my numbers are WITH an
> > endianness check... that makes core Lua even faster.)
> >
> > And for completeness, I've added LuaJIT2 numbers:
> >
> > lua.exe load asciidata.lua - 1.99 seconds
> > lua.exe load asciidata-luasrcdiet.lua - 1.98 seconds
> > lua.exe load binarydata.lua - 0.07 seconds
> >
> > luajit2.exe load asciidata.lua - 1.26 seconds
> > luajit2.exe load asciidata-luasrcdiet.lua - 1.26 seconds
> >      
>    My guess is that your Lua file is mostly numeric data.  I know that the
> 80M Lua file I have is mostly strings, which may explain why the binary
> version doesn't have the compression yours does.
>    
Mine has a lot of large strings representing binary data.
>    -spc (I also suspect you weren't hit with this bug)
>
> [1]	http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4-6
>    
Not that I've seen.

Josh