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util/gc.lua @ 11046:64713f21ff0e

util.dbuffer: Simplify test case An earlier theory involved the bug being related to collapsing multiple items, so it exercised that too. Also correct the comment, it referred to the space in "hello world" in an earlier version before the test string was changed to "foobar", which was what was tested in a REPL
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:28:48 +0200
parent 10935:2d57c49bfa12
child 11431:4874b54af344
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local set = require "util.set";

local known_options = {
	incremental = set.new { "mode", "threshold", "speed", "step_size" };
	generational = set.new { "mode", "minor_threshold", "major_threshold" };
};

if _VERSION ~= "5.4" then
	known_options.generational = nil;
	known_options.incremental:remove("step_size");
end

local function configure(user, defaults)
	local mode = user.mode or defaults.mode or "incremental";
	if not known_options[mode] then
		return nil, "GC mode not supported on ".._VERSION..": "..mode;
	end

	for k, v in pairs(user) do
		if not known_options[mode]:contains(k) then
			return nil, "Unknown GC parameter: "..k;
		elseif k ~= "mode" and type(v) ~= "number" then
			return nil, "parameter '"..k.."' should be a number";
		end
	end

	if mode == "incremental" then
		if _VERSION == "Lua 5.4" then
			collectgarbage(mode,
				user.threshold or defaults.threshold,
				user.speed or defaults.speed,
				user.step_size or defaults.step_size
			);
		else
			collectgarbage("setpause", user.threshold or defaults.threshold);
			collectgarbage("setstepmul", user.speed or defaults.speed);
		end
	elseif mode == "generational" then
		collectgarbage(mode,
			user.minor_threshold or defaults.minor_threshold,
			user.major_threshold or defaults.major_threshold
		);
	end
	return true;
end

return {
	configure = configure;
};