On Saturday 03 February 2007, Zach Dwiel wrote: > What I'd like to do is have a system where all of the data for my server is > contained in a large Lua data structure. Where can I create this data > structure so that A) it is only created once and B) is visible from every > page on the server. Every place I tried to create this data, it would only > satisfy one of these properties ... It would be created once but not > visible from lua pages, or would be visible and created every time a page > was generated or viewed. check the 'stable' facility of CGILua. i think not all launchers support it, at least mod_lua, FastCGI and Xavante do, but 'old CGI' doesn't (AFAIK) as an anecdote, the code that later became Xavante started as a reaction to the 'delete and recreate all state' approach of CGILua. Xavante handlers are simple functions on a long-lived environment. but for the wide majority of cases the stable module is that's needed. -- Javier
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