Re:Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode
by eropple on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:18PM
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The power delta between AngelScript or Lua and your own interpreter is gonna be pretty small, though. It's a cost you pay once (in a modern implementation) to interpret into...a bytecode VM. And you totally might be a wizard beyond my ken here, but I strongly doubt it'll be easier to implement a bytecode VM of your own than calling, like, five functions. =) I'm not denying that there are cases where such a thing is valuable, don't get me wrong, but don't reinvent what you don't have to. And probably should not be the first thing you're reaching for in your toolbox. Or second.
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Re:Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode
by TheZenPsycho on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:53PM
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You're probably right and it's totally irrelevant in this day and age with cheap memory and cpu power.
I can't help but remember fondly on the idea of the bytecodeVM that "Out of this World" used to draw vector graphics, and think "That. is. neat".
or the power and flexibility the SCUMM vm afforded story writers.
It's fetishistic and unrealistic I suppose, to think it would be cool to do some amazing game on some extremely primitive slow low power cheap machine that anyone could buy for like $10. The whole fantasy usually ends when you realise that the cost of displays is well beyond the cost any actual computer hardware you may consider.