Re: Need a bit of help with a lua loading problem please

["Ashwin Hirschi" <lua-l@...>]

> The only reason to pre-compile chunks, really, is because you'vestripped  
> the parser out of your lua vm. byte code is less portable,harder to deal  
> with (as you've found), and not really faster to load

I disagree. In my experience loading compiled chunks is (much) faster than  
loading source code.

In some quick tests I did with Lua 5.2 (debug-stripped) compiled code can  
load up to 4 times faster than non-compiled code.

With the debug info not stripped out, loading compiled code is a bit  
slower. But, again, it's still noticeably faster than loading regular  
scripts.

Ashwin.