Dump large tables quickly

[Ravi Joshi <ravi.joshi53@...>]

Hi all,

I am using Lua 5.2. I have large tables (1-dimensional arrays) of size 800,000. I want to dump these tables quickly. I found an article on Wiki titled "Save Table To File" [1] and used it but found not up to the mark. The tables saved using this method, i.e., table.save( table , filename ) are shared in my DropBox here [2]. 

Since my primary concern is speed, hence I am ready to adopt binary file serialization if such exists.

References-
[1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/SaveTableToFile
[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/efdfvgy1n4m0zbx/table.dump?dl=0


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Thanks
Ravi Joshi