Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> By the way, even as I mull/critique/evaluate the environment changes,
> I have to say I'm really, really happy about yieldable pcall (and
> iterators and metamethods) though I think its going to be a bit
> "interesting" providing a clear explanation of how to program with the
> continuation APIs.
> I'm also quite happy to see ephemeron tables introduced though I 
> suspect one should still probably try to avoid creating semi-weak
> tables since the ephemeron logic is potentially quadratic.

Also, emergency gc is very good news for embedded developers. I often 
had to worry about the most remote worst-case transient memory usage.

  Enrico