On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:36:28 +0200 Paolo Donadeo <p.dona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 23:28, Guillaume Yziquel > <guillaume.yziq...@citycable.ch> wrote: > >> And, of course, any ideas or help on the garbage collector(s) > >> issue are welcome. > > I do not know much about Lua's GC. My experience (for R, Python and > > Java) is that it's doable. > > The GC implemented in Lua [1] is an incremental mark-and-sweep > collector. Since Lua type system is simple (nil, boolean, number, > string, function, userdata, thread, for coroutines, and tables) it > automatically collects everything without problems. The strategy for > basic types is to copy values from the C (or OCaml) side to the Lua > stack: this copy decouples the two GC and sets them free to deallocate > values. > > Problems arise when one tries to share userdata or closures between > OCaml and Lua. In this case it's not clear (at least to me) how to > approch the problem. > > > > [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.10 How about translating a program in lua (or lua bytecode) to OCaml sourcecode automatically? Would that be possible? Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
