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- Subject: Re: Garbage Collector Cost
- From: "Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:47:18 +0300
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:02:40 +0300, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:
I worked for a company where we built a Lisp implementation with a hard
upper limit on GC pauses... (I wasn't involved, so I don't know the
details,
Details would be interesting. Obviously turning GC completely off also
would
put an upper limit on it's pauses...
Lua GC has all kinds of corner cases (such as quadratic worst case
performance
of the ephemeron collection) that make it extremely unlikely to be useful
for
*hard* real-time usage.