Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.1 (work1) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> writes:
> >> Can you recommend any parameter changes to make the 5.2 garbage
> >> collector more "5.1-like"?
> >
> > To make the collector more agressive you must increase its stepmul.
> > By how much I do not know (see below).
> 
> I tried a bunch of values for "stepmul", from the default (200) up to
> 10,000...  But none of the stepmul values I tried seemed to make much
> difference -- Lua 5.2 never seemed able to keep the memory usage under
> control (it still used over twice as much memory as 5.1.4 or LuaJIT,
> and caused the system to start thrashing).

Do we have access to this code to run it?

-- Roberto