Re: Lua in the Kindle

[David Given <dg@...>]

Matthew Wild wrote:
[...]
> I don't have titlebars, and I don't know what you mean about not
> drawing borders properly, but I don't have any (notable?) memory leaks
> (I often don't reboot for weeks at a time).

The Kindle 3 firmware, which was all in Java, was very brittle under the
hood --- for example, it ran all applications in the same VM, which
meant that static variables were never garbage collected. Ever.

As a result it would tend to silt up over time and eventually crash and
reboot.

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