Re: How to stop yielded threads from being garbage collected

[Martin Linklater <mslinklater@...>]

Thanks for that Peter - it now breaks instantly 8).

On 24 Nov 2011, at 09:57, Peter Pimley wrote:

> If you create the thread and you *don't* keep a reference to it then
> the thread will be eligible for garbage collection.  Could it be that
> the only reason that any of your threads do run is because although
> they are eligible for garbage collection, they haven't been collected
> *yet*.
> 
> This would be easy to check by running a full garbage collection cycle
> every frame (I'm guessing it's a game if it's 30Hz, right?).  Do this
> by calling lua_gc with LUA_GCCOLLECT.  See
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_gc  This will slow
> things down a bit, so consider removing it again when you have
> finished debugging.
>