Comment by fullstop

libtcl8.6.so is 1.8MiB on my desktop, and liblua5.1.so.5.1.5 is 186KiB.

Maybe there are ways to shrink libtcl or cut pieces out, but that's quite a difference.

I've found that for most of my tasks the order of things is not terribly important. I suppose that if I really needed this I could add my own ordered list data type to Lua.