Re: Explicitly triggering the Garbage Collector

[Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teachtext@...>]

On Aug 7, 2005, at 18:40:25, Rici Lake wrote:
> If the new threshold is less than the byte counter, then Lua  
> immediately runs the garbage collector. In particular  
> lua_setgcthreshold(L,0) forces a garbage collection. After the  
> collection, a new threshold is set according to the previous rule.

Rici,

 thank you. I knew I had read about a function to do this in the  
official API somewhere, but with all the new stuff assailing me I  
just couldn't find it anymore.

> Note: I believe this interface will change with Lua 5.1.

 Hmmm... how often do changes like these happen? I already saw that  
apparently the binary format for compiled code changed in the past,  
and I'd be interested in knowing how much of a priority backwards  
compatibility is in Lua development? Of course I can always just stay  
with 5.0 or whatever version I'm currently using, but of course that  
would cut me off from any new features and bug fixes.

 In particular, how likely is the compiled file format to change  
again? It would be rather handy if I could ship compiled scripts  
because they wouldn't be as readable as plain text.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de