Re: wish for 5.2

[Ariel Manzur <puntob@...>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Ariel Manzur <puntob@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.

we've had problems with the amount of userdata waiting to be
collected, so it'd be nice to know which ones actually have a __gc..
in the case where userdata is used to represent C objects, not all the
instances need the finalizer, so usually the __gc just acts as a
proxy. In that case, just looking into the metatable is not enough.

Ariel.