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[TCristoforo]

I'm working on a project where I'm reading a binary formatted file and extracting the data in it to form more coherent information that is useful to the program I'm making.

I'm wondering if there are any performance gains(other than ease of editing the script) if I were read in and extract the data from a lua file instead.

[Alexander]

C will be faster than Lua, but if you are reading small binary files it does not actually matter.

[TCristoforo]

Thanks, what size binary file would you consider to be 'too large' where it would start to make a performance difference?

512 bytes?
1K?
5K?

[Alexander]

I was thinking 50MiB+, You should not then worry about files that size, C is faster but loading those files and processing them takes a negligible amount of time in the first place for either, Lua may be easier to write with in the end.

[TCristoforo]

I figured as much, thanks for the info :)