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- Subject: Re: table.remove in C api?
- From: Javier Guerra <javier@...>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:15:27 -0500
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Chris Camacho<c.camacho@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Will that collect the key or could I end up with a large table of
> nil values ? (just checking!)
it will destroy the pair, making both the key and the (previous) value
available for garbage collection.
of course, a lightuserdata is an atomic value, which doesn't need any
allocation/collection (just like a number, or a boolean)
--
Javier
