Precompiling does not imply reduction in size. Stripping debug
information
helps reducing size but of course gets you less information in case
of
errors. I think you'd be better off compressing instead of
precompiling.
See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-05/msg00380.html and that
thread.
Compression is a nice idea here but our filesystem on these devices
already
uses LZMA-compression so we would not really benefit from this.
But more disk space for less debugging information is a good
compromise in
this case. And this remembers me of another point I forgot to
mention: The
CPU time we would save by byte-compiling the Lua files.
So my question is: Is there anything which could be helpful for
cross
compiling Lua byte-code
The easiest path is to change lundump.c to handle the multiple
platforms,
especially if the differences are minor. How different are your
target
platforms?
Our target platforms (the important ones) are all 32bit ones but
with various
byte-orders but on of our main compiling platforms is amd64 so we
also have
this 64bit integer problem.
But thank you all for your replies I will have a look into the
sourcecode and
give it a try.
