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Hey folks, I’m working on a game which uses lua
extensively, on a platform where memory is limited, and loading is slow, so I’d
like to minimise my memory footprint and load times.. When the game starts, I create a lua vm,
and load a bunch of global scripts that I want to keep around for the duration of
the game.. Then each level has a .lua script file
containing the script just for that level – a whole bunch of functions
and tables. Ideally, I’d be able to isolate the
level-specific functions from the global ones, and then between levels set the
level-specific functions/tables to nil and do a lua garbage collect – so the
memory for the level-specific scripts gets cleaned up but the global stuff
stays around - I don’t want to destroy / recreate my lua vm between
levels or set the whole of global to nil, because this hurts my load times. Is there a way of doing this
programmatically? I was thinking maybe I could compare the state of global
before and after loading a level-script to figure out the level specific stuff?
But maybe there’s an easier way? Cheers, Ricky |