Re: Can I save size by dumping a table of chunks? (and, how do I do it?)

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Each of the input lua scripts have the same 5 or 6 strings again and
>> again, so I was thinking that if string pooling happens, perhaps that
>> would reduce the size.
>
> The Lua compiler already optimizes all constants used in a function and
> so only one copy of each string exists per function. However, different
> functions, even if defined in the same chunk, do not share constants
> (strings, in particular).

no?  i thought each string was unique lua_State-wide

-- 
Javier