Re: Memory leak?

[Daniel Stephens <daniel@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> I have on occasion wanted a table.clear( t ) function that would clear the
> table and release any associated memory. Basically, it reclaims memory ahead
> of the GC and keeps the table identity fixed at the same time. How useful
> this would actually be, I don't know.
>
> Mark
>
>   
I too have found myself wanting this on a few occasions, along with 
table.copy( t ) which would make a minimally-allocated shallow copy of 
the table (similar to the optimized size obtained when using an explicit 
table initializer, rather than the exponential growth of a dynamically 
extended one).

I will admit to not knowing whether these are artifacts of a 'premature 
optmization' or not.

Daniel.