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                  Perhaps an 80M script isn't that excessive …
                                        
Around three months ago, I found a bug in Lua [1] (and yes, it's silly to run
an 80M (megabyte) script, but then, I tend to do silly things with programs).
I reported the error to the Lua mailing list, and a few days later it was
posted as a known bug with a one line patch to fix it [2].

And yes, I just got around to retesting Lua (with a version that has every
patch applied, including the patch for the bug I found) with my 80M script:

> [spc]lucy:/tmp/lua>time lua -i show.lua
> Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > dofile("default.lua")
> > os.exit()
> 
> real    0m10.964s
> user    0m5.880s
> sys     0m0.376s
> [spc]lucy:/tmp/lua>
> 

Much better.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/11/10.1
[2] http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4-6

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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