Re: Incremental garbage collection coming to Lua soon?

[Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@...>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:40:06PM -0700, David Jeske wrote:
> 
> There are some interesting lessons to learn from the work Python has
> done on GC.
> 
> Historically Python was reference counted, making object deallocation
> time very predictable -- although not collecting cycles. A few
> versions ago they introduced a generational cycle finder. In the
> latest version this cycle finder is enabled by default.
> 

see http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-05/msg00444.html and its
follow-ups for a previous discussion from a few months ago.

inferno/limbo uses a similar hybrid scheme: ref counting + background
cyclic collector.  see http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-05/msg00496.html.

-taj