From: "贾枭" <stfairy@...>
Date: 2010-02-07T20:52:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Honest opinion needed...

Limiting the use of dynamic features of ruby will lead to better
performance since ruby 1.9 uses YARV. But something like
multi-threading or resource-consuming will possibly bother you.

Above all, you should think over that whether a fully-featured
scripting language is really needed. I think building small
domain-specific languages for different aspects in your game will
reduce the complexity of development and will lead to better
performance.

2010/2/7 Schala Zeal <schalaalexiazeal@gmail.com>:
> I've been trying to find a scripting language to integrate into a game
> I'm developing in C and my choices are pretty much either Ruby or Lua.
>
> See, game developers tell me Lua is the way to go for performance and
> flexibility, but the C embedding API feels so low-level that it's
> intimidating.
>
> Ruby, on the other hand, has a much friendlier C embedding API and
> doesn't look to need the developer jumping through hoops. However, some
> of my friends develop their games on a program called RPGMaker and they
> say the newer versions are awful mainly because of Ruby being the new
> scripting language and on top of that, Ruby's been criticized for the
> processing power.
>
> I looked into Ruby 1.9 to find it adopted a more efficient third-party
> interpreter and that code runs 15% faster... or something. Reading about
> that restored my hope that I could use Ruby with no reprecussions. On a
> hunch, I checked the latest RPGMaker's release date which was Dec 27,
> 2007.
>
> A lot of concerns plague me about 1.9. I suppose the most important
> would be does 1.9 redeem Ruby's processing efficiency? Version 1.9 is
> fairly new, so I'm guessing RPGMaker had to be using 1.8 or lower, which
> is the old engine.
>
> The bottom line is would there be any negative impact if I were to embed
> a Ruby 1.9.1 scripting engine in my game, in contrast to Lua?
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