Garbage collection (nothing to attract flames ;))

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Hello!

I was wondering, since I've seen this done occasionally while
browsing other peoples' code: does it in any real way aid garbage
collection (either in terms of immediacy of collection or
gc running time) to explicitly nil-out variables which you
know you won't be accessing again?

I can see how this would be of some benefit for global
variables which would otherwise hang around indefinitely,
but what about short-lived local variables and the contents
of local tables, etc?

Thanks,
--Adam
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