[pillmillipedes]

interesting! have you tried putting the compressed payload into a large block comment at the end/start of the file, and recovering it by loading your own source as bytes to prevent the compiler from mangling the payload? I'm not sure if that would work but could be worth a try...

[purplesyringa]

We considered it, but that requires knowing the path to the file and being able to open it, which I don't think is possible in general (e.g. if the file is loaded with `loadstring`, or if it's loaded from tmpfs and then deleted, etc.).