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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> You need good garbage collection.  Having a bad garbage collector and
> hoping it will not show too much is not a good option for dynamic
> languages with or without continuations.

I think you should look at the relative frequency of table allocation,
closure allocation, and function calls in typical Lua code.

Most dynamic languages have crappy garbage collectors.

Tony.
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