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- Subject: Re: Explain?
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:13:58 +0100
On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:55, Rici Lake wrote:
[...]
> Possibly. Consider the following:
>
> local a = {}
> for i = 1, 1000000 do a[i] = "X" .. i end
> local b = somefunction(a, x)
> -- no more references to a
>
> In that case, a will live until the end of the scope, which
> might be some time distant.
In fact, the compiler *could* notice the fact that a isn't used any more and
so reuse the same stack slot for a different variable. I don't know whether
it does or not; it's a fairly obvious compiler optimisation.
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