Re: Pushing a UserData pointer?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> on 5/17/05 3:29 PM, Chris Marrin at chris@marrin.com wrote:
>
>
> > Right, which is why I suggested that userdata be made into an opaque
> > pointer. That at least makes a programmer using good practice less
> > likely to do harm. Using this had a phenomenal effect on the performance
> > of my system, which I why I think it is an important tool for Lua-C
> > interfacing...
>
>
> Did this really speed up your system or just your benchmarks of how fast you
> could push an object from C++ to Lua? After getting slapped around a bit on
> the list for doing essentially what you did, I had to admit that push time
> wasn't a major factor in most of my profiling however it was implemented.

I am doing a lot of pushing of the C++ instance so Lua can access it. So 
yes, this was an accurate test case. I understand that there are 
workarounds. But all of them seem very C++ programmer unfriendly and we 
are trying to make it easy on C++ programmers to add objects to the 
system that are accessible from Lua and vice versa...


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