Re: LuaJIT2 and lua_dump()

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:41:12 -0700
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> wrote:

> asciidata.lua - 134,280,891 bytes
> asciidata-luasrcdiet.lua - 133,759,270 bytes
> binarydata.lua after luac - 26,654,637 bytes
> 
> What follows are load times on a very fast machine with lots of RAM 
> (much faster than the game consoles I've referred to earlier) after 
> running the test once to cache the file in memory and then averaging 
> several runs afterward.  Bear in mind that the ASCII data is 5 times 
> larger than the binary data, and the test below doesn't take into 
> account disk load time.
> 
> Load asciidata.lua - 1.99 seconds
> Load asciidata-luasrcdiet.lua - 1.98 seconds
> Load binarydata.lua - 0.07 seconds
> 
> Is binary data important to me?  Based on the numbers above, you bet
> it is.

I would suggest you need a different file format for such large-scale
data :)

B.