LuaJIT and large tables

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

  I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this, but I found an issue
with LuaJIT (2.0.0 beta 2) and it relates to my insanely large Lua script
[1][2].  The script generates a really huge array (73,011 items).  Lua 5.1.4
handles it fine, but when I attempted to use LuaJIT on it, I got the
following:

luajit: default.lua:352835: function at line 2357 has more than 65536
constants
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'dofile'
        showmsg.lua:3: in main chunk
        [C]: ?

  Lua itself limits a function to around 2^17 or 2^18 constants, so I worked
around that limit.  Is the 65,536 limit in LuaJIT a bug, or a design
constaint?

  -spc (It's all string data, by the way ... )

[1]	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00463.html
	It's an 82Mb file, by the way.

[2]	The Lua bug it exposed has since been fixed
	http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4-6