Re: generational collection

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:52:40AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy 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.
> 

Don't cut it yet! I'll ask one of our engieers to run some Ixia tests
against one of our newer web proxies using Lua 5.2, with generational off
and then on.