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- Subject: Re: Lua tables vs XML [repost]
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:14:05 -0300 (EST)
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:25:04 -0700
>From: Steve Dekorte <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
Steve Dekorte <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've seen this issue come up on a Python project - to use Python pickle
> format or XML. Parsing XML turned out to be slow and the XML formatted
> data took up alot of space. I'd guess you'd find the same differences with
> Lua and XML.
I forgot to mention - if you want to save and load complex Lua structures
that you're modifying in Lua, you might want to check out Lua Pickle:
http://www.dekorte.com/Software/Lua/LuaPickle/
It even deals with data structures that have loops and cross references.
Steve
