Re: Incremental garbage collection coming to Lua soon?

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

> It would be nice to be able to specify an
> amount of time that you could delegate to Lua for collection. Or,
> perhaps some sort of volatile flag could be checked by Lua whilst GC'ing
> so that you could interrupt it at will - e.g. on a timer or when you
> exit an idle period - mmm which suggests multiple threads. Or, perhaps
> there could be a call back to the client application periodically to
> check whether GC should wind up. 

Or the other way around, which wouldn't suggest threads; have
the client application call lua_bite_size_gc() repeatedly until
some time threshold is passed or something important comes up
in the app.  That would need a 'very incremental' gc though. :)

--Adam
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