Re: Lua vs LuaJIT, compatibility on GC behaviour for weak tables

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 01/02/2011 19:49, Mike Pall wrote:
> Your code is broken if it relies on any particular GC behavior.

There's an example of code [1] where GC in Lua 5.1 on Windows was not 
able to prevent constant growth of memory consumption. BTW, LuaJIT 2.0 
beta 5 also behaves that way.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-04/msg00007.html

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Shmuel