Re: lua on ARM7

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Ah, yeah.
>
> Your flag thing is a "one entry queue" but I was expecting Bert not to 
> want to lose a single interrupt (and them to be different, like having 
> some data values attached, that Lua would care about).
>
> Anyways, already this is getting speculative, since we don't know what 
> Bert does. Bert: if you want an event dispatch queue, I can send code 
> I've used in LuaX/SDL_mixer, to catch played music samples at real 
> time (and show the graphs by Lua). Don't remember about memory 
> allocation, but yes, most likely one alloc per interrupt is needed there.
Or you allocate a buffer up front, and increase the size in the user 
space receiver once >n% has been used. Never a good idea to allocate 
during an interrupt, and often not allowed on many systems.

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Lisa