Re: long-term memory behaviour

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

> > thanks for your answer, but my question was concerning a different point:
> >
> > i would like to know if the garbage collector of Lua is stable in the 
> > sense of memory usage over very long, and highly active, interpreter 
> > run times (i am talking in the magnitude of months) - from experience 
> > i know that many otherwise very mature interpreters suffer in this 
> > regard.

Rob Brown has not answered, but I know who/what he was working on before 
he left his last job. He was working on Satellite systems with as far as 
I know Lua embedded in them. He used our coverage and performance tools 
for this task.

I think you'd except execution times for satellites to be measured in 
years or decades. That tells me the GC works well so long as you don't 
put any C memory leaks or Lua GC leaks in your app.

I'm sure Rob will correct me if his Lua usage was ground based rather 
than space intended.

Stephen
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