registry.c

For those of you who are wondering, NO I did NOT forget about devlogs. In fact, I initially did not plan to put this on Flavortown but then I polished it up a lot and decided I may as well.

Anyways, it is such a small project that more than 1 devlog would be extraneous.

I started making this as part of my other project, Endian Online, which I needed a flexible registry for. Endian is a game with data driven components, so the purpose of a registry is to load items, NPC’s, functions, etc, from JSON files or dll’s / shared objects into the engine at runtime.

For that reason, this registry is designed to have a super fast reading time, but I did not put a lot of effort into making writing fast. Furthermore, there isn’t even a way to remove an entry from a registry because it would be entirely useless for what it is designed to do.

I am proud to say that even though it is written in C, I spent a very small amount of time debugging. My development was made much easier because I wrote unit tests, so testing became very easy. It is entirely memory safe (or at least as close as possible) and it is well optimized. I am using this in my own projects, so I want it to be good.