Re: incremental garbage collector?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Likewise, I'd love to hand this off to the Lua authors.

We are not going to invest time on an incremental GC in the near        
future, unless someone else builds a "proof of concept". A proof of     
concept is an implementation that shows that we can have incremental    
GC in Lua with (1) small complexity (mainly small size), (2) portable   
code, and (3) small overhead.                                           

Lua is quite different from OCaml and other languages with incremental GC, 
and I have no idea how such collectors would behave in Lua. (For 
instance, tables in Lua are very dynamic [and can be very big], and so 
write-barriers can be expensive.) 

-- Roberto