Re: Precompiled include files
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jul 11, 2013
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It depends on the implementation, but probably not. My idea makes it all work seamlessly from the user's perspective, which means that it's integrated with how the symbol table is built and how code is parsed.
Matt
Isn't that the same thing as the Rob's original shrouded code ?
No. The shrouded and scrambled code was just a form of obsfucation. The interpreter (rather, the parser) would essentially unobsfucate it back into something like its original form before executing it. Rather than being more efficient like precompiled code, it instead added a step to the execution process.
Wasn't that originally rejected by the developers for some reason when it was requested ?
Shrouded code uses the same bytes that are used in other file encodings that go beyond ASCII (e.g. UTF-8). Getting the old shrouded code to work now that we're moving to support Unicode is not a trivial task.
