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- Subject: Re: Reentrant GC
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 10:58:51 -0800
> On Nov 29, 2018, at 2:53 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> So I think it will be quite slow (and not easy to integrate to communicate complex Lua structures made with tables with possible cyclic references)
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We handled that with out own high-performance table pack/unpack logic, including arbitrary graphs of tables, string interning and support for closure passing as well. Developed a pretty efficient algorithm (in C) which ended up giving us all the performance we needed. In fact, we ended up using the packed format (which was a compact binary form) as a network wire format AND a persistence format, so every part of the system saved/exchanged data in one well-defined format.
—Tim
