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- Subject: Re: Fengari: Why we rewrote Lua in JS
- From: Daurnimator <quae@...>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:11:54 +1000
On 27 July 2017 at 11:09, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> However the lua C api
> doesn't create out-of-band references: you create+manage lua
> references yourself.
I should rephrase:
The Lua C API doesn't permit out-of-band references between lua
objects: any references have to be created and dereferenced via
calling C api functions, hence meaning that the lua GC (and in
fengari's case, the JS GC) can do full sweeps.
