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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Rapin <toupie300@gmail.com> wrote:
> The standalone lua executable is able, using string.dump, to "compile"
> a Lua file into a file.

And a Lua-only version of luac is therefore straightforward:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCompilerInLua

All the extra machinery of luac is for pretty byte code inspection, mostly.

steve d.