Re: "Real-word" Programs to Experiment with the Generational Garbage Collection (GC)

[Tobias Markmann <tmarkmann@...>]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 16:49, Alexandre Skyrme <askyrme@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> in order to do so, i'm looking for "real-world" programs developed in lua that
> could be used to test the gc in real execution scenarios. ideal candidates are
> long running programs that create and destroy lots of objects throughout their
> execution.

Prosody [1], a XMPP server written in Lua sounds like a good match for
"real-world" program. It's open source and publicly accessible. In
addition to that there exist benchmark tools for testing XMPP servers
for performance.
I'm 100% sure the authors would be interested in helping further
improving Lua's performance in reagard to its GC.

Cheers,
Tobi

[1] http://prosody.im