Re: LuaJIT - Is ffi.alloca possible?

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

I guess I was mistaken, and took something that Mike said the wrong way.

I appologize for that!

It was something about local ffi.new( "" ) elements not getting garbage 
collected when going out of local function scope, instead retaining them 
if they got returned... but I have to reread Mike's messages again.

On 3/29/2011 2:33 PM, Josh Haberman wrote:
> Mike Pall<mikelu-1103<at>  mike.de>  writes:
> > Recent JVMs do
> > escape analysis. But from what I hear, this is not such a big win,
> > except for trivial examples.
>
> Someone was claiming on HN a few days ago that escape analysis is a
> major win for PyPy.  There was speculation that this isn't as
> important for LuaJIT thanks to its representation that does not
> require numbers to be boxed:
>    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373591
>
> In that same thread someone claimed that you are planning to
> implement escape analysis -- not sure where they got that info.  :)
>
> Josh