Re: C arrays as Lua tables

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dimitris Papavasiliou
Date: 2/25/2012 4:18 PM
> Hello all,
>
> The attached archive contains a first version of a module that
> essentially serves as a bridge between Lua and C arrays by exposing C
> arrays (of all types) to Lua as tables with suitable index, newindex,
> len and pairs/ipairs metamethods.  By itself this is probably of
> little use in Lua but it should be quite useful as a base for other
> modules or perhaps in the case that Lua is used as an extension
> language for an application dealing with large matrix/vector data.
Out of curiosity, how does this compare to LuaFFI's [1] array and 
structure manipulation?

-Josh

[1] https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi