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It was thus said that the Great Rob Kendrick once stated:
> On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:47:55 +0200
> Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@013net.net> wrote:
> 
> > In my experience, ASCII Lua-files after deletion of redundant
> > whitespace characters are usually smaller than their binaries.
> 
> And ones passed through a compression algorithm (DEFLATE, or LZF if
> you're tight on code space) makes them even dinkier.

lua file:			82103735
lua file, stripped[1]:		71951986
lua file, gzip:			13104530
lua file, stripped gzip:	12689377

  -spc (Just a few data points)

[1]	http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lstrip