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- Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:57 pm #10031 I find it interesting that files produced by node.compile() are roughly 50% larger than their source counterparts. Is lua bytecode that verbose, or is there some extra debug info being stored in there that we could do without?

- Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:10 am #10691

I find it interesting that files produced by node.compile() are roughly 50% larger than their source counterparts. Is lua bytecode that verbose, or is there some extra debug info being stored in there that we could do without?

For me the compiled (.lc) script(s) are smaller then their source (.lua)

name:ds18b20.lua, size:3418
name:ds18b20.lc, size:2180

name:DS18B20Simple.lua, size:1516
name:DS18B20Simple.lc, size:992

I did some more tests and found one file that actually got slightly larger
name:TermoLED.lua, size:2392
name:TermoLED.lc, size:2404

I don't know why...

- Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:11 pm #10703 Probably because I am comparing "minified" lua to .lc and you are comparing commented lua with descriptive variable names and useful white space.

- Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:16 am #12182 download pre-built bin here:
https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/releases

Change log:
2015-03-18

update u8glib.

merge everything to master.