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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, DAISUKE NAKAJIMA <dn97834@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.luafaq.org/#T1.9
> 8.2.11 Emergency garbage collection
> A full garbage collection is forced when allocation fails. This is
> particularly useful in embedded devices where memory is a constrained
> resource.
>
> Is this really true?

It's definitely a feature in Lua 5.2, but not in Lua 5.1 (perhaps as
the FAQ maintainer I should make this more clear)

steve d.