Multiple threads from one file?

[Astusvis]

Here's the thread code, to save a back and forth of questions.

[Boolsheet]

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s = s..k.."="..v..","

TSerial is probably not the right thing to use if you have huge tables. As I said, use table.concat.

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local t = {2,4,6,72,34,5,6,43,6,63,32}
local s = table.concat(t, ",") --> "2,4,6,72,34,5,6,43,6,63,32"

Then again it's unusual that it hits the memory limit in this way. Try garbage collecting every other line. :/

[Astusvis]

Wait, what?
I think you think I know what your talking about.

What is that first piece of code?
And how would I "un-concat" the string?

[slime]

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local t = {}
for v in str:gmatch("[^,]+") do table.insert(t, v) end

or

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local t = {}
local function insert(v) table.insert(t, v) end
str:gsub("[^,]+", insert)

[Boolsheet]

The code is from TSerial.lua.

You can use the output of table.concat to create a string that is loadable with loadstring.

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local original = {2,4,6,72,34,5,6,43,6,63,32}
local str = "return {".. table.concat(t, ",") .."}"
local copy = loadstring(str)()

It still wastes memory and could be optimized to.

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local original = {"return { [0]=nil", 2,4,6,72,34,5,6,43,6,63,32, "}"} -- Assuming we don't use the index 0.
local str = table.concat(t, ",")
local copy = loadstring(str)()

Lookup loadstring if you want to know what exactly it does.

(Code is untested)