Re: Using multiple lua_States

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <ventonegro@...>]

Hallo,

Brenden Rheaume wrote:
> I am beginning to imbed lua into a game project. One of the things that 
> I would like to do is, define general functions(OnHit,OnDamaged,OnClick) 
> for each object type in the game (each enemy, ship type, weapon type, 
> etc), which would be defined in a lua script file for each type. What I 
> need to know is how expensive would be to use multiple lua_States for 
> each type, loading the lua script associated with each type, assumming 
> there are quite a few of them (50+).
>  
> If it would be really expensive (memory/cpu) to use that many lua_States 
> is there another convienent way to acheive the same result?
>  

	Hum, why don't you put the functions for each type in a separate table 
inside the same lua_State? If you keep each type in a different 
lua_State they'll be completely unrelated.

-alex