Re: Reference counting patch for Lua 5.1?

[Matt Campbell <mattc@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Do you have problems with the 5.1 collector?

I am trying to debug a crash which occurs when one of my __gc 
metamethods tries to release a COM object that I didn't implement.  I 
suspect that the bug may be in the COM object's implementation, but I'm 
not sure.  If reference counting is used instead of or in addition to 
the normal collector, I know the object will be released sooner.  In the 
best case, this may make the problem go away.  If that doesn't happen, I 
may at least have more information that I can use to track down the 
problem, since I'll know the eact point at which the object is no longer 
used.  So this has nothing to do with performance.
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