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- Subject: Re: large allocation with 'io.read' function
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:08:47 -0300
> 2017-03-03 13:03 GMT+02:00 op7ic \x00 <op7ica@gmail.com>:
>
> > version: lua 5.3.4
> >
> > I`m not this is really a bug
>
> Yes, we have been told to use the word sparingly. Maybe call it
> an "unintended side-effect".
Why is 'io.read(59e+9)' different from any other code that consumes
large amounts of memory (e.g., 'local a = {}; for i = 1, 1e50 do
a[i] = i end')? Is that previous loop an "unintended side-effect" too?
-- Roberto
