Re: Incremental garbage collection coming to Lua soon?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>How far off is the release of this and is it still definite?

The incremental GC is still being designed but it remains our main goal for 5.1.

>Also, is it the kind of change that would require substantial changes to
>the Lua scripts themselves or would they see a performance increase (or a
>reduction in interruption by the GC) automatically?

We don't expect that Lua scripts will have to be modified at all. We hope to
see automatic performance gains, but of course it all depends on how well the
application fits the GC model.
--lhf