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- Subject: Re: caching pointers to Lua strings?
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@...>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:49:22 +0200
* Peter Cawley:
> I interpret the manual to mean that should a Lua implementation use a
> moving GC, it is only required to fix the address of strings while
> they live on the stack, and is free to move them around once they are
> off the stack.
That's my interpretation as well. But it's mentioned multiple times
on this list that you can assume that Lua GC is non-moving, so I
expect that programmers have come to rely on this.
The implementation permission might be useful for a collector which
performs emergency compaction to reduce fragmentation, similar to
Hotspot's CMS collector.