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<h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1>
<p>PCSX-Redux features a Lua API that is available through either a direct Lua console, or a Lua editor, both available through the Debug menu. The Lua VM runs on the main thread, the same one as the UI and the emulated MIPS CPU. As a result, care must be taken to not stall for too long, or the UI will become unresponsive. Using coroutines to handle long-running tasks is recommended, yielding periodically to let the UI perform some work too. The UI is probably going to run at 60FPS or so, which gives a ballpark of 15ms per frame.</p>
<h2 id="lua-engine">Lua engine</h2>
<p>The Lua engine that's being used is LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 compiled in Lua 5.2 compatibility mode. The <a href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/">Lua 5.1 user manual</a> and <a href="https://luajit.org/extensions.html">LuaJIT user manual</a> are recommended reads. In particular, the bindings heavily make use of LuaJIT's FFI capabilities, which allows for direct memory access within the emulator's process. This means there is little protection against dramatic crashes the LuaJIT FFI engine can cause into the emulator's process, and the user must pay extra attention while manipulating FFI objects. Despite that, the code tries as much as possible to sandbox what the Lua code does, and will prevent crashes on any recoverable exception, including OpenGL and ImGui exceptions.</p>
<h2 id="lua-console">Lua console</h2>
<p>All of the messages coming from Lua should display into the Lua console directly. The input text there is a single line execution, so the user can type one-liner Lua statements and get an immediate result.</p>
<h2 id="lua-editor">Lua editor</h2>
<p>The editor allows for more complex, multi-line statements to be written, such as complete functions. The editor will by default auto save its contents on the disc under the filename <code>pcsx.lua</code>, which can potentially be a problem if the last statement typed crashed the emulator, as it'll be reloaded on the next startup. It might become necessary to either edit the file externally, or simply delete it to recover from this state.</p>
<p>The auto-execution of the editor permits for rapid development loop, with immediate feedback of what's done.</p>
<p>For complex projects however, it is recommended to split your work into sub-modules, and use the <code>loadfile</code> function to load them in your main code. This implies working on your project using an external editor.</p>
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