Re: Our change list for Lua 5.1work2

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

on 12/10/04 7:34 AM, Adam D. Moss at adam@gimp.org wrote:

> It would help
> enormously if there were an explanation as simple as 'this
> value should be 1024 times 120% times the estimated
> ratio of new objects to dead objects within your program
> over a given period' (n.b. I don't know if this is related
> to what this magic number actually does -- it's just an
> example).

Speaking of magic numbers, why are the GC values reported in kbytes instead
of simply bytes?

Mark