[aquaria] Patch to run Lua scripts as threads

[Alexandre]

People usually either use .luo (Lua Object code) or .lbc (Lua
bytecode). I don't think there actually is a standard.

Alex Garcia
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Andrew Church
<achurch+aquaria at achurch.org> wrote:
>>For the PSP, is there any reason we can't just precompile the scripts?
>>Use luac to convert it down to bytecode, and then load the bytecode
>>files instead of the .lua versions (or perhaps, compile to bytecode the
>>first time you see that file is missing or outdated).
>
> Yeah, I'd been thinking about that as well.  Since you pretty much have
> to use a package file on the PSP, I could just luac everything in the
> packaging step, and keep a .lua fallback for mods.  I haven't actually
> profiled map changes yet, so I don't know how much time is spent
> compiling the scripts vs. loading them into memory; it could be that the
> I/O savings from not having to pump hundreds of seek/read calls through
> the OS will trump everything else.  I'll definitely look into it, though.
>
> Out of curiosity, do you know if there's a standard file extension for
> compiled Lua bytecode (like .pyc instead of .py for Python)?  It hardly
> matters since I can make the code check for any extension, but I figure
> that if there's a standard, I might was well keep to it.
>
>  --Andrew Church
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