For Inspiration: arena-based, quad-color incremental, generational, non-copying, high-speed, cache-optimized garbage collector

[rikki cattermole]

On 04/02/2018 8:49 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> On 2018-02-04 08:41:04 +0000, rikki cattermole said:
> 
>> "It doesn't need to be concurrent, since Lua states are completely 
>> independent."
>>
>> Single threaded simplifies a lot. So no, not useful.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't be able to judge that fast from a single line in the 
> text, if the concept can/can't be tweaked/extended. That's why I added 
> "for inspiration" to the subject...

Really we ought to use Boehm, as the newer versions can be 
generational&incremental.

It is potentially quite a lot better than our version of it.