GameMonkey Script

I'm attempting to run two machines, each in a different thread.

During a single threaded part, I'm copying tables from one thread to another, using Set and iterating over the tables. This is causing problems in the garbage collector, (it takes a ton of RAM, and it will eventually crash when running a full GC).

Is there a way to copy all of the data from one machine to another so my scheme of running two machines will work?

Thanks.
-Shawn.

I strongly recommend against this, and recommend against using multiple instances of the VM.

Out of interest, why are you doing this?

even though I disapprove, I suspect it's not safe to set any reference type(user object, string, table, function, etc) directly into the tables in the destination VM.

I'm already duplicating the string tables, and that's fine. I don't use user objects ever, and don't need to copy functions - just primitive data in tables.

The reason for this is I do all my geometry generation in script, and normally I use run two threads: one for game logic, one for generating an instruction list to send to the renderer. The update and render run at the same time, when they're both done all data from the update thread gets copied to the render data buffer for use on the next render thread, (the render thread is 1 frame behind). I'd like to be able to apply this to GM as well by running two machines, one in each thread, then copy relevant data.