Multiple instances of Ruby interpreter in my C++ code?

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Thanks for all the suggestions. The cooperative multithreading isn’t my
idea. The app I want to extend already exists and it’s not in my power to
change it’s fundamental structure.

-Thorsten

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis@awesomeplay.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:25 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: RE: multiple instances of Ruby interpreter in my C++ code?

To be honest, I’ve never really seen the point of cooperative
multi-tasking. Might as well just be a single “task” will callback
methods… ~,^ The whole purpose of the Ruby threading model is to not
be limited to cooperative multi-tasking.

Again, for what you want, given that you seem to require your app be
multi-threading, another language may be better for you. Ruby is much
more a high-level programming language than it is an embeddable
extension language.

Lua, TCL (as mentioned by Dossy), and others (including
Scriptix) are designed for extending an application, and
will be much better suited to your needs than Ruby.

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:17, Thorsten Scheuermann wrote:

Well, the threading in the app is cooperative, not preemptive. So if there
was a way to spawn each script in a Ruby thread, and switch to a specific
thread through a C or Ruby call I think I could do it.

Then I could basically do this:

while(!done)
{
switch to my ruby thread
for(a while)
run a line of ruby code
yield()
}

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis@awesomeplay.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:11 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: RE: multiple instances of Ruby interpreter in my C++ code?

Ew, the threading will be a problem. As mad as some people on the list
may get at me for saying so, in the interest of “the best tool for the
job,” Ruby may not be your best bet if your app requires the
multi-threading.

On the other hand, Ruby itself has great threading support - you may
wish to have your app run in a single OS thread, and let the Ruby
scripts be multi-threaded?

Otherwise, of the languages I know, Lua would probably work best for
you.

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:05, Thorsten Scheuermann wrote:

I wanted to use it in a module for an application to run (currently)
very
simple scripts. The thing is that the app is multithreaded and several
instances of this module could run concurrently executing different
scripts.
The scripts right now just look like this:

doSomething(x)
doSomethingElse(A_CONSTANT)
…

They are automatically generated but eventually I will write new ones by
hand and that’s where the flexibility of Ruby would come in handy. the
calls
that are made in the scripts end up calling wrapped C/C++ functions.
If I have something like
script1: x = foo()
script2: x = bar()
I don’t want the scripts to actually share the variable x. They should
be
visible only in the scope of the particular script. Maybe there’s a way
of
wrapping these scripts inside a Ruby module through a preprocessor so
that
they are isolated from each other?

-Thorsten

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis@awesomeplay.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:49 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: multiple instances of Ruby interpreter in my C++ code?

Ruby makes use of a lot of global values - there is no way of doing this
in Ruby currently.

What reason do you have for wanting multiple instances? There may be
another way of accomplishing your goal(s).

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 09:42, Thorsten Scheuermann wrote:

Hi,

I’m new to Ruby and am currently trying to embed Ruby in a C++
program.
It
is pretty straightforward and I’ve already had some success with that.
However, what I really want is to have several independent instances
of
the
interpreter running. Lua for example makes this easy by encapsulating
the
interpreter state in a C struct, but I didn’t see that facility in
Ruby.
Is
there any way to accomplish this?

-Thorsten Scheuermann