compile a function

Subject: compile a function
From: Remo Dentato &lt;rdentato@ ... &gt;
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:36:05 +0000

Hi there!
I'm trying to compile and save a function from within lua. This is my current approach (assume src is a string containing the source code and file is a file opened with "wb"):

   fun, err = loadstring(src)
   ...
   file:write(string.dump(fun))

When I look into the generetade file, though, I found the entire source code (the src string) preceded by the binary header and followed by other Lua VM code.

I guess this mean that next time I reload the function the source code will be compiled and loaded.

I would have liked to have an all binary file as the ones created by luac. I understand luac uses the C API to achieve that but I've not be able to understand how to do the same within a Lua script!

Any insight would be appreciated!

Remo