Redbean Lua Server Pages may now be stored in the zip as byte code. This
can improve performance, since redbean currently doesn't cache byte code
but it might be more useful for anyone wanting to create a closed source
redbean. The .lua extension should be used for byte code files. Lua will
tell them apart based on a magic number at the start of the file.
This change also improves some Lua error reporting conditions. See #97
DESCRIPTION
Lua is a language designed for embedded use in native applications. It
has an impossibly elegant C API and the Lua language itself feels more
like Python compared to alternatives like Tcl except it's a great deal
faster and doesn't have strong opinions about character encoding.
PROVENANCE
https://github.com/lua/lua/
commit e7803f7dbcdc966ab1f9db143424ee811ab1a398
Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
Date: Wed Mar 3 09:44:20 2021 -0300
New release number (5.4.3)
luac.c needed to be sourced from:
https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.3.tar.gz
LOCAL MODIFICATIONS
The `\e` string literal escape sequence has been added, which is
equivalent to `\27` (the Lua version of `\033`) or the ASCII ESC
character. It may be used for teletypewriter control like having
bold text, which can be encoded elegantly as `\e[1mHELLO\e[0m`.
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