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> Can't you query the names of locals through the debug interface?

Only until you strip the debugging information with luac -s, which
you would certainly want to do for very limited memory environments.

The line number information takes up one word per opcode, doubling
the size of the VM code, for a start: that is usually bigger than
the space used up by variable names.

R.