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> As I think I've mentioned previously, 'd like to be able to mmap a big
> file and add it as some sort of string to Lua without copying the
> contents at all.]

Yes, you mentioned that. Also, people in embedded systems seem
interested in avoiding long constant strings being copied into RAM.
There are other cases. To get there, stop internalizing is a first
step.

-- Roberto