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- Subject: Re: Incremental GC, step multiplier and finalizers
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:19:27 +0200
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jean-Luc Jumpertz <jean-luc@celedev.eu> wrote:
> The memory management issue comes from the almost-non-incremental invocation
> of finalizers in the current version.
This would be very useful in similar applications like LuaJava, where
(a) the userdata point to potentially rather large Java objects and
(b) finalization is cheap.
A good reason to upgrade to 5.2, actually, especially if a refinement
of the patch could make finalization more balanced.
