confusion with the gc module

["冶晶邓" <fatfatson@...>]

hi,dear all:

    i'm sorry to bother you again for my bigbig confusion in my reading of lua source:

 

    about global_State.gcstepmul: i can't understand why this field is indicating the "relative speed" of collector to "memory alloction"(mentioned in manual). i've searched all appearance of  it,  the first is in lua_gc, where it's updated by the argument, and the second is  in luaC_step as bellow:

    l_mem lim = (GCSTEPSIZE/100) * g->gcstepmul;

    i know it's used to calculate the step size during this call. what confused me is:

    1. the "dimension"( or "unit", "量纲" in Chinese) of the step variable "lim".  in next serveral lines, it substract the return value of "singlestep" in every loop, but when i follow into singlestep(), i found its return value seemd so strange: in "GCSpropagate" statu, it returns the amount of bytes it traverses, and in "GCSsweepstring" statu, it returns only an "magic number" GCSWEEPCOST, and in "GCSsweep" statu, the magic number becomes GCSWEEPMAX*GCSWEEPCOST... so i'd like to know what's the exact meaning of the variable "lim"( and the signification of these two magic numbers)?

    2.where could i found the relationship between  global_State.gcstepmul and the speed of "memory allocation"? i'm fully confused...

 

    Any help would be appreciated!