Game monkey vs squirrel

GameMonkey - performance. Engines and Middleware Programming. UnshavenBastard Think of small, weak hand-held consoles. I've thought about scripting languages to use in games on those things, and narrowed it down these two from what I could gather about performance and some other things, like syntax, supported primitive types UPDATE: I'm now also considering AngelScript I read that GM uses garbage collection, while Squirrel does not ref counting instead , making me slightly biased towards Squirrel, considering GC as a performance no-no.

But maybe I'm wrong. What can you say? Thanks in advance. Cancel Save. The best way to test this would be to profile both scripting engines yourself. Setup some test to test allocation, GC cleanup, etc.. This will give you relative performance to each other, as for how fast it will run on a hand held? You'll have to test that directly on the platform. Good Luck! This is why I am asking to hopefully hear people who have a bit of experience with real world code and stuff.

By the way, would it be a better idea to put this thread in the cellphone, PDA and whatnot forum, instead here? Unfortunately those are not very common scripting languages so there doesn't exist a suite of code to test against.

You're pretty much left to your own resources if you want to test their relative speeds and general performance. Their is a good benchmarking site which profiles many languages both interpreted and compiled, managed and unmanaged which can give u an idea of general performance, but Squirrel and GameMonkey aren't on those.

Jason Petrasko I don't use GameMonkey, but I do use a modified version of Squirrel 2. I can say this about them just from reading about GameMonkey: Go with Squirrel unless you like C syntax style. Squirrel has sexy syntax, its the hottest furry little beast I've ever met. I don't think its performance will be much less than GameMonkey, though in the worst case its dead simple to add some fast linked in squirrel functions yourself for that code you need to optimize badly.

WitchLord Hi, I'm the author of AngelScript, but I'll refrain from stating any opinions as I have never used either of the other two. Instead I'll point you to an interesting article that may help you decide: Game Scripting Languages I hope I'm not turning you away from AS by showing you the article, but understand that I'll definitely improve the few negative points that the article brought up for AS. AverageJoeSSU I wasnt really fully aware of the other scripting camps, that made it pretty clear.

I left a comment. The problem I have with such tests is that they are so narrow in their bench marking scope: they're all essentially a single while loop doing the same operation over and over. Obviously that would require a fair amount of work to try and support two completely separate script implementations I haven't quite expected how slow Squirrel appears to be, compared to lua.

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