Having one lua_State per script rather than per entity would be huge memory savings!<div><br></div><div>It doesn't seem like that'd be much of a waste at that point. The waste is loading the same scripts multiple times.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Andrew Church <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:achurch%2Baquaria@achurch.org">achurch+aquaria@achurch.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">>>My friend's table of local variables seems a bit simpler/straightforward<br>
>>while still being pretty clean?<br>
<br>
</div>So I was giving this variable table idea some thought, and a potential<br>
problem occurred to me: How do you differentiate between functions from<br>
different scripts? I may just be misunderstanding your original<br>
suggestion, but if we use a single lua_State for everything, then the<br>
scripts are all going to have name collisions on the common functions like<br>
init(), update(), and so on since those get registered in the global<br>
namespace.<br>
<br>
I guess if you set up one lua_State for each script file with a separate<br>
variable table for each instance of the script, you could avoid the<br>
collisions, but then we're wasting memory on multiple states again...<br>
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