Re: Lua as a data description language

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Couldn't a new bytecode be introduced (by Lua authors) that would take 
> less space than current ones.  This solution would be totally 
> transparent to Lua end users, imho.

I'm not sure that would make much difference. Numbers are reused by the
compiler and any program cannot have many byte values. So, if a data
file uses only small (byte) values, its source will have at most 256
constants.

-- Roberto