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- Subject: Re: Question about the major gc
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:04:54 -0300
> It seems that:
>
> After a enought amount of `youngcollection`, Lua will execute the `fullgen`.
>
> If there is a huge amount of OLD object, the `fullgen` will make the STW
> for a long while.
>
>
> I'm curious why not switch to incremental mode instead of executing
> `fullgen`.
If it swithces to incremental mode, it will never switch back.
The idea of this behavior is to try to adapt the collector
temporarily. (I am not sure we will keep it that way.)
-- Roberto
