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- Subject: Re: Boxed userdata and garbage collector
- From: Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@...>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:30:55 -0400
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Peter Cawley <lua@corsix.org> wrote:
> The obvious solution to me is to allow the internally used allocator
> to be changed, and allocate those megaoctects as userdata themselves
> (with said userdata not actually being exposed to any Lua script, nor
> having any fancy metatable).
If the userdata is truly not exposed to Lua, it will be collected very
quickly. The effects of this are quite undesirable. :)
