Terry Ellison

Gregor, If you look at the uzlib source code, what really makes this powerful is the combination of a dictionary-based substitution and the huffman coding of the sequences as described...

As well as the `file.dump()` variant of `string.dump()`, it is probably worth adding this 2K window deflate / inflate to `file` as well: `file.getpacked()` and `file.putpacked()` and perhaps `string.getpacked()`. A...

> The 10% for smart integer encoding would still help reducing the space needed in the LFS partition or am I missing something. Yup: missing something. The data structures for...

I need to do bit more thinking about compression options. As well as input and output buffers, the LZW algo requires a dictionary window (N bytes), chain index (2N bytes)...

> Just one more question: The flash process on chip will then always be two pass, limiting the amount of strings to the said 32 or so KB? We could...

Standard Lua has three encoding formats for Lua code: source file (**lua**), compiled file (**lc**), and in memory (**RAM**), and given that we have no decompiling options, here are the...

@jmd13391 Joe, thank-you for your input. I feel that you have already made the transition to advanced developer. What we need is a set of fairly pain-free and easy to...

> Now I see the only problem in the limit of around 32 K of string space in the new method. To be honest, I agree with Joe: from the...

I've just got off Skype and a 2-hr catch-up call with Johny reviewing the Lua 5.3 progress. The main bullets w.r.t this issue were: - The Lua 53 build is...

Just a quick update on what is happening here. Having bounced around options with Gregor and Johny, the scope of _Lua 5.3 version 0_ of LFS is now getting stable....