Re: Can't interrupt tight loops in Lua 5.4 anymore?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > It was an implementation change. Nothing changes to the user, as
> > far as we know. (At least, no one pointed to any real change to the
> > user.) Things seem to be exactly as they were in 5.3, despite all this
> > noise.
> 
> I don't think that's true. In Lua 5.3, an asynchronously set hook
> would always eventually interrupt an infinite loop, but in Lua 5.4,
> there are some circumstances in which it never will.

There was never any such guarantee in 5.3, and we are still waiting to
see one single such circumstance for 5.4. Both are exactly on the same
ground.

This is starting to look like a FUD campain.

-- Roberto