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Lua · Expert
Lua · Expert. Ten lessons. Open-book quizzes. Lesson 1 free.
10 lessons · The Host · Lesson 1 free
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Lesson 1 · On the house
memory model
GC generations sketch.
Lesson 2
dual number representation
int vs float.
Lesson 3
finalizers __gc
userdata cleanup.
Lesson 4
to-be-closed vars
Lua 5.4 <close>.
Lesson 5
VM internals sketch
opcodes & stack.
Lesson 6
multi-state hosts
lua_State.
Lesson 7
security deep
untrusted scripts.
Lesson 8
API versioning
LUA_VERSION.
Lesson 9
embedding patterns
push/pop discipline.
Lesson 10
Expert capstone
Safe cache table.
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