title: Share a LUA variable across requests in Lua-Resty (openresty)
body: <p>I'm using OpenResty with lua-resty; and obviously for each request the program has its own variables. To share simple strings or configurations across requests I currently use lua-shared-dict.</p>
  
  <p>But, if I need to share and maintain a big variable (e.g.: a complex table made by the parsing of a large INI file) across requests (the variable is created every hour, for example, in order to improve performance), how can I do it?</p>
  
  <p>(e.g.: another example, imagine to translate this in LUA: <a href="https://github.com/dangrossman/node-browscap/blob/master/browscap.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dangrossman/node-browscap/blob/master/browscap.js</a>; how can I maintain the browser[] array across multiple OpenResty HTTP requests, without having to re-parse it for each request?)</p>