Re: Avoiding string duplication

[Chris Smith <space.dandy@...>]

> On 5 Nov 2019, at 16:52, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> Technically no.  References are only valid as long as they're on the
> stack, or there exists a reference elsewhere in the Lua state.  Since you
> can't be sure if the string has another reference somewhere (in the general
> case), popping the stack like this removes the reference to the string and
> it could become sugject to garbage collection.

Thanks, that’s what I needed to know.  I can guarantee that references will be preserved, so this isn’t an issue.

Chris
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