From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T18:48:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for MMORPG Scripting

I don't think you'd want to use Ruby for MMORPG scripting.

Current implementations are too resource heavy for that.

Try a Scheme, a Forth, a Smalltalk or Lua.

This comes from a huge Ruby fan. This is one of the ONLY things I
wouldn't use Ruby for.

On second thought, there's a project to compile Ruby to Smalltalk.
Maybe a mod of that would give you what you want.


Aur

On 7/8/07, TongKe Xue <xue@ai.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
>    I'm working on a massive simulation project (like worldforge). I need to
> be able to allow users to script objects in the world. I am thinking of
> ussing Ruby as my scripting language of choice. However:
>
>    (1) I need to be able to limit the memory usage of the object.
>    (2) I need to be able to limit the CPU cycle usage of the object.
>
>    I.e. I don't want users to use my game to calculate digits of PI.
>
>    Is there a way (or an existing implemntation of Ruby) to let me create
> these light-weight tasklets/threadlets/processlets (there's too many
> objects to have a UNIX process for each object) such that I can limit the
> memory/cpu usage on each?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --TongKe
> (When replying, please do reply all as I might unsubscribe due to the
> traffic.)
>
>