Re: Garbage Collector Cost

["Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:02:40 +0300, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:

> I worked for a company where we built a Lisp implementation with a hard
> upper limit on GC pauses... (I wasn't involved, so I don't know the  
> details,

Details would be interesting. Obviously turning GC completely off also  
would
put an upper limit on it's pauses...

Lua GC has all kinds of corner cases (such as quadratic worst case  
performance
of the ephemeron collection) that make it extremely unlikely to be useful  
for
*hard* real-time usage.