Programming Gems – errata

Chapter 2

• page 16, end of second paragraph:
  the performance of our implementation
• page 18, third code sample:
  lim = 100000
• page 19, first paragraph:
  about how Lua implements tables
• page 20, footnote:
  the smallest power of two
• page 23, 4th paragraph:
  this change reduces the use of memory from 95 MBytes to 65 MBytes.
• page 23, 5th paragraph:
  a one-million-point polyline uses only 24 MBytes of memory.
• page 27, first line:
  by better tuning the collector for that particular case.
• page 27, end of second paragraph:
  All of them have their uses when tuning a memory-hungry program.
• page 28, end of third paragraph:
  you lose flexibility.

Chapter 4

• page 36, code sample; page 39, Listing 2:
  encoded = infile:read("*a")
  infile:close()

Chapter 6

• page 57, first paragraph:
  where words are executed as soon as they are read
• page 58, Introduction, third paragraph:
  is hard to change(1).
• page 58, Forth via examples, first paragraph:
  Note that "words" are sequences of non-whitespace characters

Chapter 8

• page 85, first paragraph:
  Kepler 1.1 adds support for the developing web applications,
• page 86, last paragraph:
  are already provided by Kepler in a simple way
• page 91, second paragraph:
  To implement this we use replace the match function
• page 96, last paragraph:
  Instead of locking the user into a specific solution

Chapter 9

• page 100, first paragraph:
  Each time the high-level filter is passed a new chunk,

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