Re: precompiling

[Edgar Toernig <froese@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Stephen Dekorte wrote:
> >I want to have my lua code precompile files before executing dofile()
> >so the next time the script is run it will run the precompiled version
> >if this source file hasn't changed.
> 
> The easiest solution for this is to define a function around the whole chunk
> and return it. Something like
> [...]

I guess he meant something different.  More like

function dofile(name)
  local cname = name .. ".luac"
  if not exist(cname) or isolder(cname,name) then
    compile_and_dump(name,cname)
  end
  dofile(cname)
end

It's doable but I don't know if anybody has made it.

Ciao, ET.