Re: LuaPlus popularity

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com> writes:
>>  "An optional high performance reference counted garbage collector."
>>
>>  Lua's GC is already high-performance.  And I bet this
>>  reference-counted one leaks.
>
> I'm pretty sure that it does reference counting PLUS mark-and-sweep, but
> unfortunately when we turned it on, things crashed. Again, this is
> years-old information; for all I know they've fixed those crash bugs at
> this point.

I'm curious what compelled them to even try though -- the Lua GC is
pretty good in my experience.

-Miles

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