Re: Memory load

[William Roper <lacutis@...>]

If laught() is a function you are going to be using in your whole game
you may want to keep it in memory, if not just do something like this:

msgbox("This was your last step!!", "Enemy");
laught code goes here...

Theres no reason you have to encapsulate code in a function unless you
want to call it more than once.

Ryan

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:46:53 +0200, Tharo Herberg <tharo@bahamut.de> wrote:
> Hmm so if i have this script on map "wood"
> 
> fucntion laught()
>         (...)
> end
> 
> msgbox("This was your last step!!", "Enemy");
> laught();
> 
> the garbage collector will remove the msgbox and the laught() entry after
> running it. but not the funtion.
> i want to make some "functions" possible in my maps. so at this point i
> dont know why someone should need to make own functions .. but why not.
> 
> Is there a possible way to remove the declaration of "laught()" later?
> 
> Tharo
> 
> Am Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:32:19 -0500 hat Virgil Smith <Virgil@Nomadics.com>
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 
> > Roughly speaking, when you load the script you get a function returned on
> > the Lua stack.  When you pop it from the Lua stack it will then be a
> > candidate for garbage collection and in its next pass the garbage
> > collector
> > will "remove it".  If you don't want this to happen then you will need to
> > store a reference to the function in the Lua globals table, or registry.
> >
> > When you call the function that resulted from loading the script it can
> > add
> > things to the globals table and thus consume more memory.  For instance,
> > running the following script segment will add a function and a table to
> > the
> > globals table and thus consume some memory...
> >
> > function Foo()
> >    print("This is a function")
> > end
> >
> > Bar = { 1, 2, 3 }
> >
> >
> > ----
> > However, running this script segment will NOT add anything to the globals
> > table, and thus the process of RUNNING this script will not cause any
> > memory
> > to be consumed....
> >
> > print("This script doesn't create or modify any variables")
> > print("2 times 2 is ", 4)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> > [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br]On Behalf Of Tharo Herberg
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:06 PM
> > To: Lua list
> > Subject: Memory load
> >
> >
> > Hm ... im new at lea so plz dont kill e for my newbie question.
> >
> > We want to use lea for smal scriptings in level maps. It runs well,
> > funtion including was also no problem.
> > When i load now the script for field xy ... When i load it as function
> > and
> > call it from c it stays in ram, right? When i just write scriptcode down
> > it is cleared from stack and from ram after running it, or?
> >
> > How can i "remove" functions or code from ram after the player left my
> > map? I only have 8 MB for everything so this is very importand for me.
> >
> > thx
> >
> > Tharo
> >
> >
> 
> 
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