Re: worst case time using hash-tables in Lua

Subject: Re: worst case time using hash-tables in Lua
From: Coda Highland &lt;chighland@ ... &gt;
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 17:32:57 -0500

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:25 PM Andrea <andrea.l.vitali@gmail.com> wrote:

2) Executables/Libraries: the official site lua.org let's you download the lua binary, uLua/LuaRocks let you download the Lua binary and libraries but it is competing with LuaPower, but there are too many links to old/dead projects (LuaDist, LuaForWindows, AwosomeLua, list is long), and it is too easy to download a dll which cannot be used with your Lua installation because of naming conventions (which is why I learned how to recompile by myself what I need)

So one thing that I think isn't actually a problem here: Lua is, first and foremost, designed for embedding. It's designed to be small and customizable. In general, building your own copy of Lua as part of your project build instead of relying on an external distribution is more or less the way you're EXPECTED to do it.

The various distributions are more about marketing and developer convenience than they are for deployment.

/s/ Adam