Re: question on lua tables and garbage collection

["Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <malkia@...>]

Hi Ana,

Also lua learner here,

But this might be helpful, the resize function in ltable.c

http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ltable.c.html#resize

Thanks,
Dimiter "malkia" Stanev,

On 2/19/11 7:20 AM, Ana Zgombic wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> i have several question on garbage collection and lua's table implementation.
>
> 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.
>
> 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