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- Subject: Re: orphaned data in lua?
- From: Karel Tuma <kat@...>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:32:40 +0200
Excerpts from Spencer Parkin's message of 2014-04-30 07:10:33 +0200:
> Thanks for the replies. I'm curious... how does the algorithm work? How
> can Lua determine what does and doesn't need to be collected if it doesn't
> keep a reference count on an object?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)#Tri-color_marking
