RE: Lua presentation at XGDC3.0

[Brian Hook <public@...>]

> All memory requests in the Lua core are done through a single 
> function, luaM_realloc.

Is there an opportunity for whatever backend memory manager is bolted
onto Lua to do compaction?  Even if a hardcoded heap is supplied using a
primitive malloc() style library, it's entirely possible that the
fragmentation in the heap will result in a non-functional Lua subsystem
after a period of time.

Brian