RE: 'gc' tag method

["Curt Carpenter" <curtc@...>]

>> Any plans to introduce an optional cycle limiter, to guard against 
>> infinite
>> loops and things like that?  Such that I can say: lua_setcycles(50); 
>> lua_dostring(...); and at 50 cycles in, it will yield back to the
function 
>> that called it with a LUA_YIELD return code, at which point I can
call 
>> lua_continue() or do something else...
>
> Hopefuly, you will be able to do that using the line hook.

Line hooks are too expensive for performance-sensitive production code.

Curt