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		OskarS on June 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lua-RTOS: a real-time operating system for ESP32 I'm curious about this as well. And it's not just GC: just allocating memory is not real-time safe unless you're using something like a bump allocator. Lua seems very much like the wrong language for this.

fullstop on June 9, 2021 [–]

Lua doesn't need to use malloc directly -- you can replace the memory allocation function with your own implementation which is real-time safe.

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