Redis.io uses lua as a scripting language. For small lists and hashes they store the entire object in a ziplist. A ziplist might be usefull in the small processor model and for readonly tables. At run time a ziplist read only table would require no initialization. -- View this message in context: http://lua.2524044.n2.nabble.com/Ziplists-tp7675065.html Sent from the Lua-l mailing list archive at Nabble.com.