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I, too, think an incremental garbage collector to allow 'soft' real-time
performance would be a great help.

Not to say real multi-threading would be a bad thing.

Dave Borgelt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edgar Toernig" <froese@gmx.de>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Coroutines in Lua


>
> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> >
> > > PS: What do you mean with "real mutli-thread"?  Real concurrent pre-
> > > emptive threads?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Good luck in spinlock/semaphore/mutex hell.
>
> I guess an incremental gc would be more interesting for the
> major user base (soft real time, games).
>
> Ciao, ET.
>
>
>