Re: Multiple lua instances

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:42:28 +0100
ingmar wirths <ingmania@googlemail.com> wrote:

> My questions now is: how efficient is this solution? How does it
> scale? Is this approach still sound, when the user controls severel
> hundred or maybe even
> thousends of units, all with there own lua instance to be evaluated
> every frame?

I'm told that Lua Lanes can scale up to thousands of threads, and that
works by having each thread be a separate Lua state, and then providing
IPC between them.

Is there a specific reason you're wanting to use different states
rather than the more usual sand-boxing approaches by using environment
tables?

B.