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--> Thursday, August 22, 2002, 10:07:17 AM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:38:33AM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>> 
>> We intend to experiment with generational GC soon. Perhaps it will
>> make it into 5.0 final. What are the "requirements of soft
>> realtime"?

> It is hard to control the exact behavior of a garbage collector in
> such a manner, but generational GC is definitely better than
> mark-sweep.

Wow, I didn't realize Lua used mark & sweep GC... Change that. ;p