Re: Free variables

[Luis Carvalho <carvalho@...>]

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> Values are freed, not variables. Actually, garbage is collected, and that's
> the only way to do it in Lua.

Ok, that's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure of it.

> In general, you should try to believe what Lua promises you: good garbage
> collection, fast table access, fast vm, etc. When and if this belief is shown
> to be unfounded, then we have a performance bug in our implementation of Lua,
> which is something we'll work hard to correct. I think our track record is
> pretty good...

For me it's excellent. Thanks for the reply.

Cheers,
Luis.


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Luis Carvalho
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