Re: Lua bytecode doesn't compress well (with LZMA)

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

2009/11/30 David Given <dg@cowlark.com>:
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> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>>> Shameless promotion: http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/squish
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>> Another shameless plug: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lstrip
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> Just because one can never have too many types of wheel, there's also
> Kein-Hong Man's luasrcdiet, which I'm using very successfully in Prime
> Mover:
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> http://luaforge.net/projects/luasrcdiet/
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Squish actually uses this as its main output filter,  (there's more
than one, such as the one that replaces Lua keywords with single bytes
>128) - and it works really well. I went a step further because I
wanted to bundle multiple libraries as well as other files (non-code)
into a nice compact file.

Matthew