Re: Reducing the size of Lua.

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Get in touch with the LuaChip project.  They're exactly on the same 
lane as you are, I think.

As to coroutines, I don't use them either, but they might actually be 
_very_ benefitial in a low-resources target, where real multithreading 
may not exist.



1.2.2005 kello 02:45, Greg McCreath kirjoitti:


> Thanks Ashwin,
>
> We certainly want the parser in the device.  I guess we could go back 
> to
> v4, but then we've got ourselves down a dead end street.  No more bug
> fixes.
>
> The language looks perfect and very powerful.  We just need to make it
> smaller and then make sure it can run at an acceptable speed!
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Greg.
>
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> Hirschi
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> Subject: Re: Reducing the size of Lua.
>
>
> > What options do we have to reduce the size of the Lua.  We do not need
> > many of the newish language features.  I notice a steady progression
> of
> > complexity since the earlier releases (Coroutines and such).  Can we
> > remove them?
>
> Things definitely seem to be getting more complex alright...
>
> How about having a look at Lua 4? I'm not sure if it's actually 
> smaller,
> but... it doesn't contain all the newer stuff [;-)].
>
> Also, I remember the parser could be decoupled in earlier versions. Not
> sure if that's still the case, though. I've never done this myself.
> You'd have to rely on precompiled scripts, for this option to be 
> viable.
>
> Ashwin.
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