When does Chaiscript parse files?

[StandingPadAnimations]

So when using Chaiscript with C++, when are the files parsed? Is it at compile time or runtime?

[totalgee]

Chaiscript code/files are parsed and evaluated at runtime.

[StandingPadAnimations]

Is there any sort of caching to avoid parsing multiple times?

[totalgee]

From Chaiscript code, if you write use("file") instead of eval_file("file"), then it will only evaluate "file" once.

[SirNate0]

Is there a way to get chai script to parse the code once but evaluate it multiple times? Say if I change some global variable x between executions and I eval("x+42")?

[totalgee]

Make the Chaiscript code you eval return a function (fun() { /* do something */ }), store that function (lambda) in a variable, and then execute the function whenever you want to.