Re: Next Version of Lua?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Ralph Hempel wrote:
> The current default garbage collector parameters request a doubling
> of the current RAM usage when RAM runs out. 

I may be wrong, but I interpret the manual description of 'pause' as 
meaning that the collector merely doubles the allocation threshold where 
a new collection will forcibly take place. I can't find sbrk() in the code.

Is there a check for failed allocation due to RAM exhaustion?

Anyway, as I said last week, I'm not sure I really understand how this 
mechanism works. To avoid the risk of memory overrun in an embedded 
system, I ended out checking allocation level periodically with 'count' 
and forcing a gc at a fixed threshold, then later checking it again 
(suggestions for a better way are welcome).

  Enrico