> tracing garbage collection (as opposed to the much slower reference counting used by perl and cpython) tends to diminish easy embeddability, both because it's

> tracing garbage collection (as opposed to the much slower reference counting used by perl and cpython) tends to diminish easy embeddability, both because it's very tricky to do in standard c, and because it kind of wants to own your program's entire memory space Lua is living proof of the opposite: small, easily embeddable, with a tracing GC