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Originally Posted by RedShirt (JernejL) Quote: Originally Posted by Seif_ We should rather switch to Lua instead. Your suggestion is not helpful and off topic. cmg4life: you don't throw anything away, pawn is very similar to plain C and you should be able to use all pawn knowledge to migrate to c++, but that would not be the only language that a native dll could support.. think delphi, php, python..

That's exactly what I'm talking about! It gives us full control about what language/virtual machine/whatever we want to use to create a gamemode.

Since everything goes through the AMX, SA-MP is limited to a just a few data types that all fit within the 32bit cells it uses (32bit signed integers and 32bit floats) and then it also uses those unpacked strings which take 4 bytes per character.
I know you can make it use packed strings so it uses 1 byte per character but SA-MP doesn't do that at the moment.
This might not be much of an issue but it adds up.

To those people talking about the wrappers being fine; have you ever looked at their source? They do a lot of stuff behind your back that wouldn't be necesary if my suggestion gets realised.