Re: Pooling of strings is good

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:54:52AM +0200, Robert Virding wrote:
> OK, so the garbage collector will remove all strings from the "string
> table" which aren't being referenced somewhere else? Regarding you last
> paragraph about the removal of the generational collector: why was this
> done as a generational collector is generally more efficient at the cost of
> using more memory? I missed this discussion.

See this thread: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-09/msg00094.html