Re: LuaJIT on win32

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0603@...>]

Hi,

Adam D. Moss wrote:
> One thought: before panicking with an OOM when presumably
> trying to create a fibre, could LuaJIT do a big aggressive
> GC to try to collect any abandoned coroutines?

The GC is already driven forward before every thread allocation.
Maybe this isn't enough for your case. Doing a complete GC is
probably considered 'unfriendly' (and the OOM may hit you
elsewhere).

> If the
> problem here is throwaway iterators jamming up the reserved
> address space (this seems reasonably likely since these are
> all I use coroutines for in the problematic app) then this
> may save the day.  Dunno if this is easy or worth the bother.

Well then CreateFiberEx (XP or later only) wouldn't help.

I'm tempted to add lazy allocation/deallocation for the C stacks.
The C stack can be deallocated once a thread returns with
L->status != LUA_YIELD (either an error or 0 for completion).
There's no need to wait until the GC deletes the thread object
itself.

Only problem is that coroutine recycling (currently only possible
via the C API, not from Lua) may be slower. Or I could put the
stacks into a deferred free queue. Well ... I have to think about
this a bit more.

Bye,
     Mike