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On 7/17/2013 8:25 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > So true Tim. And besides that, if you're not doing a random number > generator or a hugely graphics heavy program, is runtime speed > really that important? I do games. I have to do ALL of my upkeep, graphics set-up, AI calculations, etc., in 16.66ms or less, or it's going to skip a frame. Yes, speed is still important. ;P The rest of your points are good, of course, which is why I'm using LuaJIT instead of writing most of the code in C++. The only way things would be better for me (and games in general) is if LuaJIT had an optional reference-counted garbage collector. It seems that Lua CAN be modified to use one (see LuaPlus [1]), and the slight decrease in amortized performance would be more than offset (for needs of games) by the decreased memory required compared to mark-and-sweep and the increase in predictability of execution times. Tim [1] http://luaplus.org/#What-is-LuaPlus -- tl;dr: "An optional high performance reference counted garbage collector." |