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- Subject: Re: hardware + Lua resources
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:37:39 -0200
> > but a language that
> > calls itself small and embeddable (i.e. Lua) should really be that.
>
> With Lua, small and embeddable doesn't necessarily mean hardware.
> Most of the time small is relative to desktop/laptop type computers,
> including small ones and embeddable refers to embedding within a
> larger application.
Actually, "embeddable" has two quite different meanings, but Lua is
embeddable in both of them. A lot of non desktop/laptop type computers
uses Lua currently.
And "small" is not relative to desktop/laptop type computers. Even for a
very small laptop, if Lua grew ten fold, from its current ~200KB to 2MB,
it would make no difference at all.
-- Roberto