Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (work1) now available

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Mar 15, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> 
> The discussion so far has been dominated by the new undef stuff, but
> do check out the other novelties of 5.4, which are aimed at
> performance:
> - generational garbage collection
> - new VM instructions
> 
> Lua 5.4 also has a high-quality math.random function.
> 
> We'd love feedback on all these changes.
> 
> Thank you for all the feedback so far.
> 

Running some long-term tests not on the generational GC to see how it appears to behave with some of our production code. Will report back results. I realize, of course, that this is an early beta version so any performance results are highly tentative.

—Tim