Re: toLua 5 errors/questions

[Waldemar Celes <celes@...>]

At 21:41 11/9/2003 +0200, you wrote:

> > I'm also having some problems, which I think are different to your
> > problems. Mine relate to function overloading and renaming.
>
> Yeah. Although these problems are not hard to fix in the resulting cpp
> file, it's annoying to correct them manually.


sorry, I will fix this bug and let you know.

> But it seems these objects are never garbage collected. I realized it
> when I saw that the gccount was increasing rapidly when running some of
> my scripts (sometimes this function is called more than a dozen times
> per second).
>
> I just made a test. The whole memory is freed when the script ends
> (lua_close() is called). Shouldn't it be freed / garbage collected as
> soon when the "my_stats" local runs out of scope or is overwritten with
> a new table?

no, they will be freed during the next garbage collection cycle.
you can test it by requesting a garbage collection explicitly.

-- waldemar