if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['luat-cbk'] = { version = 1.001, comment = "companion to luat-lib.mkiv", author = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL", copyright = "PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team", license = "see context related readme files" } local trace_checking = false trackers.register("memory.checking", function(v) trace_checking = v end) --[[ldx--

Callbacks are the real asset of . They permit you to hook your own code into the engine. Here we implement a few handy auxiliary functions.

--ldx]]-- callbacks = { } callbacks.stack = { } --[[ldx--

When you (temporarily) want to install a callback function, and after a while wants to revert to the original one, you can use the following two functions.

--ldx]]-- function callbacks.push(name, func) if not callbacks.stack[name] then callbacks.stack[name] = { } end table.insert(callbacks.stack[name],callback.find(name)) callback.register(name, func) end function callbacks.pop(name) -- this fails: callback.register(name, table.remove(callbacks.stack[name])) local func = table.remove(callbacks.stack[name]) callback.register(name, func) end --[[ldx--

The simple case is to remove the callback:

callbacks.push('linebreak_filter') ... some actions ... callbacks.pop('linebreak_filter')

Often, in such case, another callback or a macro call will pop the original.

In practice one will install a new handler, like in:

callbacks.push('linebreak_filter', function(...) return something_done(...) end)

Even more interesting is:

callbacks.push('linebreak_filter', function(...) callbacks.pop('linebreak_filter') return something_done(...) end)

This does a one-shot.

--ldx]]-- --[[ldx--

Callbacks may result in doing some hard work which takes time and above all resourses. Sometimes it makes sense to disable or tune the garbage collector in order to keep the use of resources acceptable.

At some point in the development we did some tests with counting nodes (in this case 121049).

setstepmulsecondsmegabytes
20024.080.5
17521.078.2
15022.074.6
16022.074.6
16521.077.6
12521.589.2
10021.588.4

The following code is kind of experimental. In the documents that describe the development of we report on speed tests. One observation is thta it sometimes helps to restart the collector. Okay, experimental code has been removed, because messing aroudn with the gc is too unpredictable.

--ldx]]-- garbagecollector = garbagecollector or { } garbagecollector.enabled = false garbagecollector.criterium = 4*1024*1024 -- Lua allocates up to 12 times the amount of memory needed for -- handling a string, and for large binary chunks (like chinese otf -- files) we get a prominent memory consumption. Even when a variable -- is nilled, there is some delay in freeing the associated memory (the -- hashed string) because if we do the same thing directly afterwards, -- we see only a slight increase in memory. For that reason it makes -- sense to do a collector pass after a huge file. -- -- test file: -- -- function test() -- local b = collectgarbage("count") -- local s = io.loaddata("some font table, e.g. a big tmc file") -- local a = collectgarbage("count") -- print(">>> STATUS",b,a,a-b,#s,1000*(a-b)/#s) -- end -- -- test() test() test() test() collectgarbage("collect") test() test() test() test() -- -- As a result of this, LuaTeX now uses an optimized version of f:read("*a"), -- one that does not use the 4K allocations but allocates in one step. function garbagecollector.check(size,criterium) if garbagecollector.enabled then criterium = criterium or garbagecollector.criterium if not size or (criterium and criterium > 0 and size > criterium) then if trace_checking then local round = math.round or math.floor local b = collectgarbage("count") collectgarbage("collect") local a = collectgarbage("count") logs.report("memory","forced sweep, collected: %s MB, used: %s MB",round((b-a)/1000),round(a/1000)) else collectgarbage("collect") end end end end