Re: [mlist] RE: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Apr 23, 2003 at 12:37 +0300, Ivan-Assen Ivanov wrote:
> > Python works well for us on all the consoles (NGC, PS2, XBox).
> 
> How do you store the state of the interpreters, or does
> the "no arbitrary moment savegames" nature of most console
> games save you from this?
> 
> Resolving the pointers embedded within interpreter stacks
> was one of the two major issues we had to resolve for our
> custom scripting system - and that we don't want to have to
> resolve yet again. On the other hand, our custom scripting
> language sucks in more ways than one, and I would be happy
> to scrap it and integrate a "real language" instead.
> 
> (Latent functions a la UnrealScript being the other
> major issue, but Stackless Python seems to be able 
> to support that.)

The latest version of Lua (5.0) is mostly "stackless", so latent
functions are supported, and so you don't have troubles with
interpreter state embedded in the C stack (if that's the problem
you're referring to).  You would still have to write some code to
serialize the VM and heap state.

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Thatcher Ulrich
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