RE: LuaJIT and bytecode

["Antonio Scuri" <scuri@...>]

> Couldn't you just embed the Lua source code instead? 

  Yes, that's also an option and my next question. But I would like to
understand better that incompatibility.

Thanks,
Scuri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Bader [mailto:miles@gnu.org]
> Sent: domingo, 4 de dezembro de 2011 03:44
> To: Antonio Scuri
> Cc: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: LuaJIT and bytecode
> 
> "Antonio Scuri" <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
> >   In some libraries we embed Lua code using "luac.exe" then "bin2c.lua".
> >
> >   This seems to be incompatible with LuaJIT and I would like to
> > understand a little bit more about that.
> 
> Luajit uses a different bytecode format.
> 
> Couldn't you just embed the Lua source code instead?  It works with
> anything, and seems even easier to handle than bytecode.
> 
> [Maybe using source code would be undesirable for a super-tiny embedded
> app, which wouldn't want the extra size of the compiler, but if you're
using
> luajit that suggests this isn't your case.]
> 
> -miles
> 
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