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- Subject: Re: Garbage Collector
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 21:02:29 +0200
2015-06-04 20:53 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2.5
>
> Why does the Lua reference manual require a specific garbage collector
> implementation? Surely just having functionality requirements for the GC is
> enough, no? (e.g. must support __gc and weak tables and stuff)
It does not "require" a specific collector. It merely says what is there:
an incremental mark-and-sweep collector.
