Re: Tuning tables

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, at 14:05, Jasper Klein wrote:

> Something like these functions I had in mind:
> table.reserve( t, narray, nhash ) -- Reserves space for at least 'narray'  
> elements in the array part and 'nhash' elements for the hash part of the  
> table. May rehash if bucket count was increased.
> table.rehash( t, [nhash] ) -- Rehashes the table and optional reserve  
> 'nhash' elements for the hash part of the table.

This does not do everything you want, but some libraries just expose
`lua_createtable`.  Are there practical use cases where this is not
enough, i.e. where you need to reserve space in an existing table
as opposed to during table creation?

-- 
Pierre Chapuis