On Sunday 12 October 2008, Canute Bigler wrote: > My largest concern across the board is that of speed and not size. For if you have a C function that gets you the desired value from the 'name', try simply changing the Lua interface to receive the name and not the number. Even better, make it work with both: if you get a string, call the convertion function. if it's a number, go ahead. if it's anything else, signal an error. but if you need speed for each access (and not only short startup times), it would be hard to beat the hashtable. in that case, try a memoizing table, so you can start with an empty table and build it as needed. of course, this would only help if you're likely to repeat queries. -- Javier
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