Lua 5.1 has an incremental garbage collector[1] for memory management. This page contains some links relating to garbage collection in Lua and garbage collection in general.

General pages with links

• Gorik's Garbage Collection Page [2] contains lots of link to references and papers.
• Garbage collector [FAQ] - [algorithms]. Pretty comprehensive.
• http://www.memorymanagement.org/
• OOPS Group Publications - Papers on GC and memory allocation [3].
• Google search [4] on Garbage collection.

Specific topics and papers

• This Dr Dobbs article, Java Garbage Collection for Real-Time Systems [5], contains an informative introduction to garbage collection. It has some ideas on non-disruptive garbage collection. (This paper has an alternative name, No Silver Bullet - Garbage Collection for Java in Embedded Systems ! [6])
• Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector [7].
• Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm [8].
• Cyclic reference counting with Lazy Mark Scan - Rafael D. Lins [10]
• Non-Compacting Memory Allocation and Real-Time Garbage Collection (1996) Mark S. Johnstone [9].

Lua Garbage Collection Links

• R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes, The evolution of Lua, Proceedings of ACM HOPL III (2007). [online] http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1238844.1238846 (Lua 5.1)
• [2.10 - Garbage Collection] in the Lua Reference Manual

See Also

• LuaInRealTimePrograms
• OptimisingGarbageCollection
• GarbageCollectionInRealTimeGames
• EmergencyGarbageCollector
• MemoryAllocation
• LuaFiveTwo (Lua 5.2) is reported to use ephemerons

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