Python suitable for a game engine?

[Christian Tismer]

Nick wrote:
> 
> Don't want to put the cat amongst the pigeons but Lua
> (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/), is a language specifically designed to
> be embedded and it runs about 50-100% faster than Python and is a lot more
> compact (30k or something). It has a lot of similarities syntactically as
> far as I can see.
> 
>  If I was to use an embedded scripting language in a game I would use Lua
> not Python. If I was to write tools for the game I would use Python.

I had a quick look, but not the time to check it completely.
Does it have coroutines or small threads to do very
quick context switches? This is something which
Python will be able to do very fast, soon. You can have
thousands of current contexts and switch them in no time.
This can simplify the implementation of games in a scale,
that the speed penalty might be compensated by that.
Well, we have to try...

ciao - chris

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