LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012)

Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by ufo on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:11AM (#13095715)

IIRC this project was abandoned after Mike Pall stepped down from LuaJIT maintenance.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by blep on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:19AM (#13096230)

There are a couple attempts made by other people to get this implemented:

- https://github.com/fsfod/LuaJIT/commits/gcarena - https://github.com/corsix/LuaJIT/commits/newgc

I'm not sure what the status is on either, though; they're obviously completely different implementations so it's not clear which one of these is preferable (also both authors seem to be busy with other stuff recently).

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by vmorgulis on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:45AM (#13095839)

"Clone Mike Pall": https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/45

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by walterbell on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:58AM (#13095883)

Fixes still being committed by Mike Pall, https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/master

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by k__ on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:19AM (#13095744)

What does he do right now?

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by killercup on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:36AM (#13095805)

Legend has it that after completing his mission, he returned to a future where performant JIT compilers have ensured world peace and the prosperity of mankind for thousands of years.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by jpfr on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:00AM (#13095892)

Still committing regularly to the 2.1 branch.

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/v2.1

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by zump on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:10AM (#13096193)

What's his day job? Internet is dark about this guy.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by haberman on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:42AM (#13096319)

I've met Mike Pall in person. I've worked with him some since I helped facilitate a sponsorship from Google (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2010/01/love-for-luajit.ht...). A lot of his work on LuaJIT has been supported by various sponsorships (see: https://luajit.org/sponsors.html). This gives him a lot of freedom to work the way he wants to, instead of working as part of a larger organization.

Also note that the sponsorship page says that Mike is currently working on "unrelated projects", so apparently things besides LuaJIT are keeping him busy now.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by chubot on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:19PM (#13096477)

What did he work on before LuaJIT? Seems like he could have been involved in CPU design? He thinks more like a hardware guy than a C programmer.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by haberman on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:45PM (#13096611)

I don't know that much about his background. I didn't get much of a chance to talk shop with him (which is too bad, I would have loved to pick his brain about all sorts of things). I also assume from the lack of info about him on the Internet that he's a somewhat private person, so I definitely wanted/want to respect that.

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Re:LuaJIT: New Garbage Collector (2012) by to3m on Saturday December 03, 2016 @05:16PM (#13097770)

This won't do all that much to fill in any gaps in his CV, but here's something else he wrote: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=656

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