[Chicken-hackers] Re: Ogre 3D engine

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Efficient math operators would be useful to me.  That's what I always 
> wanted out of Chicken Scheme.  Perhaps we could put Chicken through 
> some kind of 3D number crunching demo.  Of course, the question is 
> whether Chicken can do a provably good job at it.  If there are no 
> performance advantages to Chicken, then people are just going to use 
> Python, Ruby, or Lua.  There are already Python and C# / .NET bindings 
> for Ogre.  Yet-another-scripting-language, by itself, is not a value add.
>
> Maybe Continuations are a benefit somehow.

Being able to compile scripts into machine code might be useful for 
security and anti-piracy purposes.  Most scripting languages and virtual 
machines are cake to reverse engineer from bytecode.

I have succeeded in getting MSVC set up with a sample application.
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/SettingUpAnApplication
Now there's lotsa API stuff to chug through.  There are lotsa tutorials 
though.
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ogre_Tutorials


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every