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by npx 3482 days ago
If Mike Pall happens to read this, I feel like he's really selling the world short by not writing a book about dynamic language implementation. It could influence generations of programmers! Right now you have to piece together some of his mailing list posts and try to fill in the blanks, but a more thorough explanation from him would be invaluable.
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He's also written a large article designing a garbage collector[1], which was very interesting to read.

[1]http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector

I actually implemented a variation of that once. The quad-color thing is really brilliant once I understood it.
Failing that, it would be great if someone is collecting all is writings.
Does anyone know where he disappeared off to? He seems to post every one and a while. I've never been part of the LuaJIT community but his online presence seems to have dropped off over the past few years. Was it because the new garbage collector didn't get funding?