Re: question on lua tables and garbage collection

[Ana Zgombic <morselle@...>]

Hi Axel,

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes and yes
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> and Luas GC is mark and sweep.

thank you.

and where's the part of the code to look in? anybody?

Ana

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> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Ana Zgombic <morselle@nybl.info> wrote:
>> Hi list,
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>> i have several question on garbage collection and lua's table implementation.
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>> 1) i understand that a table hash part is indeed implemented in C as a
>> hash. does this part do a rehash when its buckets are full?
>> 2) if it does do a rehash, is it right to think that pointers to
>> actual data does not change?
>> i'm thinking of how the GC finds the bits to be freed.
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>> my apologies if the questions are not clear. i'm just learning. in
>> addition, which parts of the code should i look into to see how all of
>> this is orchestrated?
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>> Ana
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