Re: Byte-swapping at load time

[Kein-Hong Man <mkh@...>]

Hi all,

David Given wrote:
> 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?

I'll second that! :-)

> 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...

After reading all the suggestions in the previous e-mails, I don't 
see why bytecode need to be sent instead of the source code. Lua 
bytecode doesn't offer any significant size, performance or 
security advantage over source code.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia