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Thanks Thierry,I hadn't seen SystemC before, and since I know nothing about VHDL, I wouldn't have known to look for it. Haven't found the docs that point to the underlying DE framework, but it's pretty clear that it's there. I'm guessing you have experience with SystemC and like it?
It still leaves the original "problem" which I think boils down to "what's a good way keep track of a lot of lua objects in C/C++?", to which which one solution seems to be keep them in a table in the registry refer to them by indexes into that table.
(Incidentally, Jerome, I apologise for being dense before. Your idea about the lightuserdata makes perfect sense now: I can almost certainly find a pointer somewhere to pair with each lua object and use as a lightuserdata key in the table)
On the offchance anyone's interested, in a fit of motivation I wrote a little DE engine in Lua last night. It's really not much, but it came together in no time at all and it's already shown me a few new (to me at least) ways to think about things. Lua makes programming fun again!
cheers, Geoff On 27/07/2007, at 12:07 AM, Grellier, Thierry wrote:
Maybe off topic, but SystemC (www.systemc.org) can be used as a discreteevent simulation system, and maybe provide all you need although it is pure c++, and you already have a simulation engine. You then just have to make a lua callback for the "threads" of your simulation with onlywrapping the event API, and thread creation, but won't have to maintaina simulation kernel.