We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, ...

The fastcall fallback bytecode for string.char over writes register results from the unpack call when the string library is a local upvalue. This is the bytecode at optimization level 1 for ...

Currently, partial strings are not easily detected on the heap. In particular, all local references need to be taken into account in order to distinguish a partial string from a regular tagged value.