Clone lua state

Question

Recently, I have encountered many difficulties when developing using C ++ and Lua. My situation: for some reason, there may be thousands of Lua states in my C ++ program. But these states should be the same immediately after initialization. Of course, I can execute luaL_loadlibs () and lua_loadfile () for each state, but this is pretty hard (actually for me quite a long time even for the initial state). So, I'm interested in the following scheme: is it possible to save a separate Lua state (the only state that needs to be initialized), which is then cloned for other Lua states?

Answer 1

When I started with Lua, like you, I wrote a program with thousands of states, had the same problem and thoughts, until I realized that I was doing this completely wrong :)

Lua has coroutines and threads, you need to use these functions to do what you need. They may be a little complicated at first, but you should understand them in a few days, it will be well worth your time.

Answer 2

Unfortunately no.

You can try Pluto to serialize a fortune. It works very well, but in most cases it costs about the same time as regular initialization.

Answer 3

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