RE: The Year In Scripting Languages Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl 2002

["Nick Trout" <ntrout@...>]

> * Lua in 2003
>   2003 will bring the official release of Lua 5.0 and also probably
>   Lua 5.1, at least in work stage.  Our main focus in Lua 5.1 is the
>   implementation of incremental garbage collection to replace the
>   current atomic mark-and-sweep. The need for this was identified by
>   the community, specially those using Lua for games. We shall
>   probably also see a new draft of the long-waited Lua book by
>   Roberto, updated for Lua 5.


"incremental garbage collection"? Are there plans for an incremental
collector or is the generational one being summerised (wrongly?) as an
incremental one? Did I miss something?

Nick