Re: io:lines() and \0

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:52 AM, René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> wrote:
> On my 486DX with 8MB RAM running Linux this get's out-of-memory killed
> reading a 10 MB example.
> Likewise on my SparcStation 10.

Which are by modern standards, embedded-class machines.  And in that
case, you should make special solutions.   Such extensions can even
interoperate with Lua's file io, since the internal format is now
visible and documented.