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- Subject: Re: Explanation of Lua garbage collection algorithm
- From: "Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@...>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:42:14 -0700
On Friday 04, Goran Adrinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for an overview of the garbage collection algorithm used in
> current version of Lua (5.1) as I want to understand exactly how it
> works. I couldn't find anything on the web or on this list. Does anyone
> know of a paper on the subject, or simply a post?
>
> Goran
I wrote an overview of how the garbage collector work, when I was working on
the Emergency PowerPatch.
For my overview see this page:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/EmergencyGarbageCollector
This page has links to papers about garbage collection algorithms:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/GarbageCollection
--
Robert G. Jakabosky
