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- Subject: Re: restarting the GC
- From: Mark Hamburg <mark@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:55:57 -0800
On Dec 29, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> The main problem is compatibility. If a program relies on the current
> behavior, this change will make the program run forever with the
> collector stopped. So, someone changes from Lua 5.1 to Lua 5.2 and
> suddenly his program starts consuming huge ammounts of memory; this
> is not good publicity :)
You could make "stop" do nothing and introduce "suspend" to pause the collector. This would mean that old code wouldn't behave quite the way intended, but it would avoid the "consuming huge amounts of memory" problem.
Mark
