RE: GC order
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- Subject: RE: GC order
- From: "Nick Trout" <nick@...>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 14:10:55 -0700
> By the way, why not to use object reference counts and base
> ...
> I am just wondering if you have ever
> considered this as an option for Lua's GC.
I swapped from Python to Lua for embedding because of reference counting
;-). There was a discussion about this a while back if you have a look
through lua-l. Someone even patched Lua 4 to use ref counting. A couple
of reasons are: cyclic referencing stops collection, and reference
counting user objects is more erroneous. Mark and sweep is simple and
avoids both these problems.
/Nick