Re: Lua Basics: file opens and the colon?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 29-Aug-05, at 3:47 PM, Klaus Ripke wrote:
> > The garbage collector will deal with it eventually, which is probably
> > good enough.
>
> .. for one-shot-scripts, yes.
> For a long running app, you should always control your ressource
> usage at least by forcing a full gc run every request or some.
> examples where lazy file closing blows up quite quickly
> include scanning maildirs etc.

Sure. Lua 5.1's incremental GC is better at cleaning up fd's fast, but 
it still wouldn't be good enough for scanning a zillion files.