Scared Shrapnel

0.9.0 Scared Shrapnel

• Loading plain Lua source is now done through package.loaders
• Faster VM startup time; From 18ms to <1ms in a test machine
• Now a module to support ./cmd builds
• Easier standalone programs
• Added crypto.random
• Added crypto.fast_random
• Removed kapow module
• New module: guard
• New module: deque
• New module: bimap
• New module: tuple
• New module: argparse
• New global function for extending modules: extend
• Moved exec.cmd and exec.run to exec extensions module
• Moved json.array and json.object to json extensions module
• Moved string extensions to separate extensions module
• Added table.clone
• Added table.read_only
• Bug fix: list
• gopher-lua fixes for pcall, select, # operator, and string.gsub
• Add bitcask.open configuration argument for maximum value size