Re: Bookworm Adventures Postmortem

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> "We heavily modified the Lua interpreter to support many advanced
> features. The first thing we did was to change the syntax to be almost
> identical to C/C++ since the BASIC-like coding style was irksome, and to
> add in sorely missed operators such as +=, *=, ++, etc. "
>
> If they wanted Javascript they knew where to find it, right? :-(

Indeed. I never had a problem with the syntax of Lua, even if sometime I 
wish to have ++ -- += and -= (the most used specific operators), because 
I like long variable names.
But well, I can easily live without them.

> "Furthermore, we made a series of incredible performance enhancements to
> the execution speed and memory management of the interpreter. We greatly
> decreased table access times and improved the performance of the garbage
> collector."
>
> Now, it would be interesting to know details about this.

Sure. I saw <http://developer.popcap.com/> that their framework is open 
source, I don't know if their custom Lua is in there. I have yet to read 
all this.

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