ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:48 pm #9704

Is there way with lua to do something similar and reduce the demand on the heap?

Yes, there is.

The nodeMCU version of LUA based on eLUA and eLUA programs can be stored in the FLASH area of a controller.

This should increase the heap.

could you please explain how that can be done? thanks

- Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:54 pm #10024

could you please explain how that can be done? thanks

2015-02-13
add node.compile() api to compile lua text file into lua bytecode file.
this will reduce memory usage noticeably when require modules into NodeMCU.