Re: Userdata environment

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Alex Davies wrote:
> As for the weak table situation, I'm pretty sure they won't leak memory. 
> They just won't shrink, so if it's greater than 100 mbytes of ram, that 
> was merely it's peak usage. Not a leak, per se.

This is not a leak but that doesn't help. The memory is not freed and as 
application continues to run, it can eventually consume all the 
available memory.

> But in any case, given the savings for your particular application 
> modifying lua may be worthwhile. On my (outdated) version of lua, it'd 
> be something like (untested):

Modifying Lua is not an option, as my application is a generally 
available Lua library.
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Shmuel