Re: help wanted diagnosing out-of-memory error

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I don't know if the Lua core developers will include the 2 in-place resize 
> patches.  It would be nice if they did.  I keepted them separate since the 
> string table in-place resize patch is very small compared to the in-place 
> resize patch for the hashpart of Lua tables.
> 
> Also the EGC idea was not mine, I have only been maintaining the EGC patch for 
> Lua 5.1.x.  The above e-mail pre-dates my work on the EGC patch, so 5.2 will 
> mostlikely not be using my EGC.

We started our EGC implementation before the first discussions about it
in the list; it is an independent implementation. But we may borrow the
idea about in-place resize for the string table. (The one for tables
seems too complicated...)

-- Roberto