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- Subject: Re: Bug in Lua 5.0.2
- From: skaller <skaller@...>
- Date: 05 Jan 2005 12:18:58 +1100
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 08:36, Spencer Schumann wrote:
> Finding these two separate bugs makes me wonder whether there are any
> other bugs lurking in this area
It is likely, because the GC is tightly coupled to
the implementation.
This need not be so, Felix uses a naive mark/sweep
collector which use RTTI instead of builtin knowledge
of the implementation to locate pointers.
It isn't clear if this could support a write barrier though.
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