[NTG-context] Snooping around in LMTX: Questions about Lua global variables

[Hans Hagen]

On 12/22/2020 6:57 PM, Neven Sajko wrote:
> Oops, I forgot to attach the scriptlet before.
> 
> 
>> [...] I guess it could also be more performant, because Lua would
>> conceivably spend less time managing huge tables.
> 
> Now that I think about this some more, it doesn't actually make sense.
> However I'm still interested in whether it is really necessary to have
> that many globals exposed.
most of what you see in that generated file is either unicode data or 
font resources ... all needed (and geared for performance)

Hans

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