layout, title, folder, permalink, categories, tags
| layout | title | folder | permalink | categories | tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pattern | Bytecode | bytecode | /patterns/bytecode/ | Behavioral |
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Intent
Allows to encode behaviour as instructions for virtual machine.
Class diagram
Applicability
Use the Bytecode pattern when you have a lot of behavior you need to define and your game’s implementation language isn’t a good fit because:
- it’s too low-level, making it tedious or error-prone to program in.
- iterating on it takes too long due to slow compile times or other tooling issues.
- it has too much trust. If you want to ensure the behavior being defined can’t break the game, you need to sandbox it from the rest of the codebase.