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On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 11:53 +0800, Bean wrote:

> Yes, actually it's just a bunch of file_exist AND or OR together, but
> I think if we use this kind of test often enough, implement it in c
> would be more efficient.

So far, we only have one file.

I checked the Lua reference manual, and no file related functions take
lists of filenames:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/

If it was ineffective, I think Lua developers would have designed the
file access differently.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin