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- Subject: Re: Byte-swapping at load time
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:58:55 +0000
On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:46, Lisa Parratt wrote:
[...]
> Could a coordinated project to create a standard library, seperate from
> the main Lua distribution, that dumps/undumps in a universal format, be
> useful?
Could this universal format be, in fact, Lua source code?
That way, the undump code would automatically exist in every Lua interpreter,
and the dump code would take a compiled Lua chunk and turn it into a Lua
string that would produce the same byte-code when compiled. (But not
necessarily the same source code that you started out with.)
Plain text is, after all, the ultimate portable file format...
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