Re: help

[Doug Rogers <douglua@...>]

mgmsky wrote:
> I need to explain the data packets from the customer inside LUA. it 
> needs to convey a string
> inside LUA, so i use lua_pushlstring, but people response that 
> lua_pushlstring is in low
> efficiency and advise not to use it often.

Is this for a Wireshark dissector?

Do you have any measurements (profiling) to indicate the 
lua_pushlstring() is causing problems?

You cannot avoid using lua_pushlstring() if you really must exchange 
strings between Lua and C. I can imagine cases (very large volumes of 
traffic, say) where dissectors would be slow enough to get in the way, 
but I have not experienced that problem myself.

Doug