RE: Incremental garbage collection coming to Lua soon?

["Benjamin Freidlin" <benfr@...>]

I see, that's good to hear. Not to be pain but is 5.1 something that
will be released in 2003 or is it more forward looking?

-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique
de Figueiredo
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:37 PM
To: lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Incremental garbage collection coming to Lua soon?

>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