Re: Bitwise XOR in Lua?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> Thanks!  However, it would be ideal if I didn't have to (re)compile
> anything, as the code that uses the function needs to be portable, and some
> of the target platforms don't have compilers available.  Is there a way to
> implement it in "pure" Lua?

How do you get Lua on the machines without a compiler?

You can implement XOR in pure Lua but it's very slow. Probably the easiest 
way is to do it bit by bit, but maybe there's a clever trick to do it 
faster with whole-word arithmetic.

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