Memory is very noticeably different.

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Memory is very noticeably different.

Opened this issue a year ago · 2 comments

Using collectgarbage("count") after requiring a Lua library adds about 5-15kb but an AOT compiled library adds ~200kb. Considering the compiled C code is way larger and is representing the bytecode not an AST I understand why, I might make some PRs trying to reduce the memory usage of the compiled code.

Answer 1 · 2023-09-15T23:41:50.000Z

And I am using -O3

Answer 2 · 2023-09-16T02:42:30.000Z

I suggest measuring how much of that 200kB is from static data (the source code arrays) and how much is the program itself (compiled C code). A known limitation of LuaAOT is that it generates a great amount of C code... One idea that might be easy for you to implement is to tell LuaAOT to only compile the "hottest" functions and leave the rest of the code alone.