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Hello Wim,

Monday, July 14, 2003, 3:02:26 PM, you wrote:

WC> That would be a bit harsh.  GC collects objects that or *not reachable*
WC> (directly or indirectly) from a root set.  This root set is the C globals,
WC> the registry and the stack.  There are many more ways to reference an object
WC> than through tables: closure environments, upvalues, thread globals, thread
WC> stack, ...

Sorry, my answer was incomplete... But this is exactly what I mean.


Dmitry Shubin

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