GC in Lua is a fundamentally much easier problem because it doesn't do threads. Also, "Mike Pall can do it so everyone can" is not a very good argument -- Mike

GC in Lua is a fundamentally much easier problem because it doesn't do threads. Also, "Mike Pall can do it so everyone can" is not a very good argument -- Mike Pall is fucking brilliant, and quite a lot of his code is stuff that your typical great C coder can't ever do.