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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 11:33:17 JST alcinnz

   • Alexandra-Lilith

   @alilly Yeah, I'd need to load *this* precompiled bytecode... But would I need to expose the ability to load others?

   Also: Both Lua & Python (the primary implementations thereof) cache the bytecode for the files they load on-disk. Noone recommends writing your programs in their bytecode as its an unstable interface, but in theory it can be done!

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     Martin Atkins (apparentlymart@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 01:34:46 JST Martin Atkins

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     • Alexandra-Lilith

     @alcinnz @alilly
     If memory serves, the adventure game Grim Fandango shipped with a bunch of precompiled bytecode for the older version of Lua they compiled into it.

     That meant that when folks wanted to reverse-engineer it later they had to find the right version of Lua to use as a reference.😀

     Of course if you are building your own interpreter then you can presumably design your own bytecode format rather than the one in current upstream Lua, so you aren't chasing upstream changes.