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> > it would be nice if the __gc entry was on the userdata itself instead
> > of the metatable..
> 
> Why?  99% of the time, many objects share the same __gc, so there's
> little point in bloating userdata to make it per-object.

Plus the __gc method gets the userdata as argument and so you can adapt
what it does to the object if needed.