The history of luaTEX 2006–2009 / v 0.50 - Pragma ADE

luastate_bytes
min:37009927, max:87755930, pages:2000
The maximum memory footprint is somewhat misleading because Lua reserves more
than needed. As discussed in an earlier chapter, it is possible to tweak to control memory
management somewhat, but eventually we decided that it does not make much sense
to divert from the default settings.
\usemodule[timing] \starttext \dorecurse{2000}{
\input tufte \par \input tufte \par \input tufte \par
} \stoptext
luastate_bytes
min:36884954, max:86480013, pages:1385
The last example of this set does not load les, but stores the text in a macro. This is faster,
although not that mich because the operating system caches the le and there is not utf
collapsing needed for this le.
\usemodule[timing] \starttext \dorecurse{2000}{
\tufte \par \tufte \par \tufte \par
} \stoptext
luastate_bytes
min:36876892, max:86359763, pages:1385
152 Collecting garbage