Re: Our change list for Lua 5.1work2

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I think I concluded from my mid-November fiddling that stepmul>2 is
> *mostly* a red herring, and changing the threshold growth factor as
> above is a more effective way of restricting memory growth).

We are mostly blind in this area. It would be a good idea to fix
stepmul as 2 and set a variable multiplier for the estimate? Something
like

  g->GCthreshold = (g->estimate/1024) * g->someValue;

-- Roberto