Re: Creating closures (or not)

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:04:35AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > My guess is that they would only be pooled if they share the same prototype,
> > and do not use any upvalues, such as:
> > 
> > t = {}
> > for i = 1, 10 do
> >   t[i] = function() end
> > end
> 
> They may be reused even with upvalues, as long as they have the same
> upvalues; each prototype caches the last closure created with it.

Presumably this cache is weak?  Otherwise you could create a really nasty GC
leak.

D.

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