[ANN] lua-marshal - fast table serialization

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

Hi List,

I thought I'd throw this little lib over the wall in the hope that 
somebody finds it useful:

https://github.com/richardhundt/lua-marshal

This is from the README:

Fast table serialization for Lua

require "marshal"

Provides:

  s = table.marshal(t)      - serializes a table to a byte stream
  t = table.unmarshal(s)    - deserializes a byte stream to a table
  t = table.clone(orig)     - deep clone a table

Features:

Serializes tables, which may contain cycles, Lua functions with upvalues 
and basic data types.

Limitations:

Coroutines are not serialized and nor are userdata, however support
for userdata the __persist metatable hook can be used.

The top level object must be a table. Metatables and function 
environments are not serialized.

Cheers and happy new year.
Richard