Re: [Suggestion] Embed bytecode in source code

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 08/10/15 04:20 PM, Tim Perkins wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:15 AM Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com
>> <mailto:fakedme@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     As of Lua 5.3 you can add a #! line to a precompiled bytecode file and
>>     it'll parse and run.
>>
>>     Seeing as how insane that is, can we get to embed bytecode in source
>>     code? As in:
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>> The byte code is an implementation detail, and possibly not compatible
>> between versions. So no, you wouldn't want to write it as part of the source
>> code anyway. It would be unmaintainable.
>>
>> What's your use-case? Code obfuscation?
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> Optimization.
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> Technically I'd have a preprocessor read source, convert the parts it cares
> about to bytecode, inject them into the original source (replacing the...
> thing) and load().
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Sounds like what you really want then is some sort of inline assembler
syntax for Lua, rather than direct bytecode injection.

/s/ Adam