I'm not at all sure this is the best approach, but it's a naive attempt.
I made some choices:
Used LÖVE 11's new love.data.pack/love.data.unpack functions (there are a million other serializing libraries, but I opted for this to use a built-in)
Changed internal cartdata table to a 1-indexed sequence, to make it easier to pack/unpack it
Made cartdata() set up a LÖVE save file in a common "picolove" directory (this choice was already made in the config) with the cartdata id as a filename, to mirror PICO-8's setup and make it possible for carts to share cartdata
dget() loads the entire cartdata each time, to make sure we're always reading from the persistent storage (is this necessary unless we want to support multiple carts accessing memory at the same time?)
dset() saves the entire cartdata each time (this is probably necessary)
peek()/poke() at persistent memory now calls dget()/dset(), which means there's some overhead but I'm not sure we can escape it
There might be more efficient ways to do the serializing and file handling. I'm pretty new to LÖVE. We could perhaps even do away with the serializing and the entire pico8.cartdata table now that it's just a transparent cache, and scan to the correct location in the file every time instead... Suggestions welcome.
I'm not at all sure this is the best approach, but it's a naive attempt.
I made some choices:
cartdata()set up a LÖVE save file in a common "picolove" directory (this choice was already made in the config) with the cartdata id as a filename, to mirror PICO-8's setup and make it possible for carts to share cartdatadget()loads the entire cartdata each time, to make sure we're always reading from the persistent storage (is this necessary unless we want to support multiple carts accessing memory at the same time?)dset()saves the entire cartdata each time (this is probably necessary)peek()/poke()at persistent memory now callsdget()/dset(), which means there's some overhead but I'm not sure we can escape itThere might be more efficient ways to do the serializing and file handling. I'm pretty new to LÖVE. We could perhaps even do away with the serializing and the entire
pico8.cartdatatable now that it's just a transparent cache, and scan to the correct location in the file every time instead... Suggestions welcome.