Re: many different user types, long running process, many scripts: what to do?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

[ I believe this has been addressed before -- lua-l archives and a  
cup of coffee should do it?  Also, this might be a candidate to the  
FAQ. ]

Having said that,

Lua state creation is _really_ fast (like 1000's per second) so don't  
be afraid. I'd try that first, since you always get a brand new state  
that way.

Lua Lanes (haha, do I write a single email without mentioning it?)  
provides a neat parallel mechanism to launch your custom scripts on  
"other states" and collect their results back in the main one. Still  
in lab, partly, mail me if fancying to try.

I think Rici mentioned some issues lately (yes, on 2-Apr) about when  
it's safe to reuse a state.

-asko


Shea Martin kirjoitti 12.4.2007 kello 17:27:

> I [have] many different scripts which will be run at various times.  
> I also have many different user types which have to be registered  
> before certain scripts run.
>
> Is it best to create a VM, register the necessary user types and  
> cfunctions, then run a script?  It seem redundant to define those  
> user types and cfunctions over and over again...
>
> Would I be better, to only ever have one VM, and run all my scripts  
> through that vm?  This seems like a potential hazard with name  
> collision...
>
> Is there way to save on redundancy?  Any other suggestions?  
> Performance is the real concern here.
>
> ~S