Re: Is there any plan to make luajit support bytecode?

[David Given <dg@...>]

On 23/03/11 11:22, Mike Pall wrote:
[...]
> - The bytecode format is somewhat stable
> - and I find a good external bytecode representation
> - and either I get bored and will do it on my own (unlikely)
> - or someone sponsors the development of bytecode saving/loading.

As a random thought...

Would LuaJIT's bytecode lend itself to decompiling back into Lua source
code? Not necessarily *readable* source code, but something that could
be compiled again into the same bytecode. This would make the first two
problems go away, would obviate the need for a reader, and would solve
the issue of dumped functions not reloading due to bytecode format changes.

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