Re: About coroutines and light threads

["Sebby " <beast@...>]

--- In lua-l@egroups.com, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@t...> 
wrote:
> >Okay, then the question is how does the Lua GC work? Ok, i'v heard 
it 
> >isn't by refcount, but how does it keep track of used/unused 
objects. 
> 
> It's a simple mark-and-sweep: all objects are kept in linked lists;
> starting from all places that can store a Lua object, mark those 
objects
> that are reacheable; then traverse the linked lists, collecting all 
objects
> that are still unmarked. Something like this..
> --lhf

Ok, not too bad. Then i guess i'd be simple enough to modify GC to 
process all threads to mark all the used elements before actualy 
collecting.

Sebastien St-Laurent
Software Engineer, Z-Axis ltd.
sebby@z-axis.com