Re: generational collection

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Is anyone using the generational mode for the garbage collection in
> Lua 5.2.1?
>
> We received very little feedback about the generational mode since it
> was introduced in Lua 5.2. In our own experiments the generational mode
> did not show relevant advantages (although it is still hard for us to
> find real Lua programs where to test that kind of stuff). As it is a big
> source of complexity for the collector, we are considering whether it is
> worth keeping it in Lua.
>
> -- Roberto
>

Do you have any statistics on overall usage of 5.2 compared to 5.1?
The reason I ask is that many of the packages that have Lua embedded,
like Redis 2.6, are using 5.1, and the Linux distros seem to be mostly
shipping 5.1 and not 5.2.


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