Re: The Lua interpreter and large scripts

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 20:36 +0100, Enrico Colombini wrote: 
> > Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > Mine is 32 bits. (Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.93GHz, 1.5G ram, Ubuntu,
> > > Lua 5.1.4)
> > 
> > Mine too (Pentium 4HT, 2 GB, XP Home).
> > 
> > Why does it not seem to happen with 5.1.2? Is it just a coincidence, or 
> > gc changed (sorry, I can't remember the changes).
> 
> For me it happened with 5.1.2 on 32bit Ubuntu as well.  So if 5.1.2
> really runs fast under 32bit XP, it's OS-dependent at least.

This bug is "all"-dependent. Anything that changes the state of the
garbage collector at that particular point affects it. That includes
sizeof's, arguments in the command line (when creating the
arg table), any detail in the programs being tested, etc.

-- Roberto