CINT as scripting subsystem

[sleo]

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint

Have anybody worked with that? Is it worth looking as Lua alternative and makecint as toLua++ alternative?

[nikki]

IMO, for a scripting language, you'd want the dynamic typing, garbage collection etc. that Lua, Python or similar languages provide. Also they have pretty good ways to bind your C++ interface (boost.bind, luabind etc.).

[stealth977]

Well, i found some comparison charts which shows CINT is median 270x slower than C++ code where python is only median 30x slower and C# Mono is only median 2.5x slower....

[BTolputt]

If you're looking at speed, LuaJIT 2.0 is incredibly fast. In some benchmarks, it outperforms C/C++ (though admittedly, those are probably contrived examples). With the work Mike Pall has put into that virtual machine, it is an incredible addition to any game engine needing scripting - it is based on Lua 5.1 (meaning there is alot of experience and documentation out there), it runs on damned near everything (PPC, x86/x86_64, ARM, etc), and the speed hit is very small for a typeless, cross-paradigm language.

[Kojack]

CINT seems like it might be useful for prototyping c code or something, but not as a general purpose scripting system.
There's a lot of scripting languages which have a c style syntax and are probably faster.

[sleo]

Ok, CINT - high stability and very slow is for banking systems, LuaJIT for games.
How about AngelScript used in Ogitor? Or MonsterScript used in OpenMW?