Re: Lua table in a shared memory segment

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

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthieu Tourne
<matthieu.tourne@gmail.com> wrote:
> But fundamentally a key value store is different than a table, and
> can't store nested tables for instance.

that's a limitation of the underlying rbtree, not of Lua.
specifically, that it only stores strings and numbers.


> Would it be possible to memcpy the entire representation of Lua table
> and store it in shared memory ?

no.  complex structures full of pointers don't survive a naive memcpy.
 you'd need some serialization step.

-- 
Javier