Re: Crunching Lua

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

In message <200511031122.28641.dg@cowlark.com>, David Given 
<dg@cowlark.com> writes
> To my surprise, running the script through luac makes things *bigger* ---
> presumably due to inefficient opcode encoding. Can anyone suggest any other
> strategies I could adopt?

Would it be possible for you to identify all the unique words in the 
file and encode then using your own scheme and then reconstruct the 
script using this at run time? Doesn't sound much different to 
compressing the script using gzip and then decompressing prior to 
execution.

Stephen
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