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Expand Up @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Sandboxing challenges are [covered in the dedicated section](sandbox).
| feature | status | notes |
|---------|--------|------|
| yieldable pcall/xpcall | ✔️ | |
| yieldable xpcall error handler | ❌ | no strong use cases, VM complexity and performance implications |
| yieldable metamethods | ❌ | significant performance implications |
| ephemeron tables | ❌ | this complicates and slows down the garbage collector esp. for large weak tables |
| emergency garbage collector | 🤷‍ | Luau runs in environments where handling memory exhaustion in emergency situations is not tenable |
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