Re: Lua as a data description language
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- Subject: Re: Lua as a data description language
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 2004年6月04日 12:24:37 -0300
> Couldn't a new bytecode be introduced (by Lua authors) that would take
> less space than current ones. This solution would be totally
> transparent to Lua end users, imho.
I'm not sure that would make much difference. Numbers are reused by the
compiler and any program cannot have many byte values. So, if a data
file uses only small (byte) values, its source will have at most 256
constants.
-- Roberto