Re: Lua x Python
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- Subject: Re: Lua x Python
- From: paul@...
- Date: 2002年8月22日 23:07:17 +0800
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 11:38:33AM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>
> We intend to experiment with generational GC soon. Perhaps it will
> make it into 5.0 final. What are the "requirements of soft
> realtime"?
That is great news!
Realtime means the execution is in a timely and predictable manner,
and soft realtime means occasional miss is tolerable but unwanted.
For example, if I have only 12 ms to the next frame, and if a call to
collectgarbage(12) will generally return within 12ms, then it is
already good enough, thus so-called soft realtime.
It is hard to control the exact behavior of a garbage collector in
such a manner, but generational GC is definitely better than
mark-sweep.
Regards,
.paul.