Re: Garbage collection (nothing to attract flames ;))

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> 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?

Since (I think) Lua uses a standard mark and sweep collector, this 
shouldn't effect collection unless a collection cycle kicks in while 
your function is being executed and even then, I can't see how it would 
have any noticeable effect unless a local you nilled out pointed to a 
large table structure or userdata containing a bunch of data.

Cheers,
Steve
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