Re: Lua 5.1(work4) collection query

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Chris Chapman wrote:
> The reason I ask is that the behaviour I'm seeing from the lua VM is
> that the GCthreshold remains constant at some high value, even though
> the garbage collector has been through several sweeps. If I call
> lua_gc and make it do a full (non-incremental) collect, it manages to
> clear up all of the collectable data. If I don't do a full collect,
> the data is never collected. No combination of parameters to SETPACE,
> SETINCMODE or STEP seems to make a difference.

IIRC the last time a GC discussion popped up we vaguely established
that there's something mysteriously wrong with the generational
collection.  If generational collection if disabled (which requires
a small code change) then you can still allow incremental
collection etc. but you might find things more to your liking.

--Adam
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