Re: optimising table creation; garbage collection

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 23 Aug 2006, at 03:31, Damian Stewart wrote:

> hi
>
> i'm writing some code that at the moment does a lot of dynamic  
> table creation, ie local bob = {}.
>
> in order to get around this i thought of writing a  
> RunTimeTableManager object which manages a table pool, and which i  
> can query for new tables each time i want one, ie local bob =  
> RunTimeTableManager.NewTable(), at which point the table is removed  
> from the RunTimeTableManager's pool.

Seems like a lot of error prone work to me.

Did you do any profiling that convinced you that allocation and GC  
was taking much longer than you could afford?

drj