4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
9:11 p.m.
On 04/11/11 1:58 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Lua has other advantages besides being fast and simple: It provides some
nice primitives for building up domain-specific languages of sorts,
leading to very compact scripts, and is also brain-dead easy to embed
into C or C++.
Certainly a project Brazil can be proud of. :)
--Toby
On 11/03/2011 12:31 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Even without the JIT, it's plenty fast on modern machines. I think the primary
benefit of Lua is that it's very easily embedded and extended, and it compiles very
cleanly on quite a few platforms. It also has a pretty small memory footprint even with a
reasonably complete standard library (which, for scripting disk format conversions, you
could probably slim down), something that lot of "embeddable" scripting
languages don't.
On 11/03/2011 07:16 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Lua would be perfect for this as it's designed to be a plugin language,
and it's very portable and easy to learn/modify.
With the JIT versions, it's about as fast as C/C++. There's development code to do this with the
DiscFerret. I've been
holding off on releasing it because I wanted to do a "universal" (script
based) version... at this point I'm tempted to abandon that and go with
the C/C++ "recompile to add a new format" version.
Sounds like a perfect application for loadable modules.
-Dave
Python is another option, though it's somewhat
larger and more ponderous than Lua. For older machines, it may be wholly inappropriate.
- Dave