Re: GC "survey"

[paul@...]

I'll take another hit to see whether the patch can work out 
as you suggested. 

But again, why do you want to free up the space taken by
"NPC dialogue"? Something between the loading of different
levels? I usually just put all of them in one place, and
they will be freed by lua_close() anyway.

Regards,
.paul.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:19:37AM +0100, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
> 
> Just had a look too, and I was thinking: can you think of
> anything that would break if lua_setconstant would take a
> boolean parameter to set or clear the constantness of the
> table ? Rationale being that, in my game, I have some big
> tables which I know are constant for quite a long time,
> thus candidates for being set as constant for GC, but will
> be unreferenced at some time in the future, and I know
> well when. Since some of these tables can be very big, and
> there can be a fairly large number of them, I'm thinking
> it could be an interesting tweak for this particular case.
> 
> In case you're wondering, these tables are NPC dialogue.
> Tables contain mostly strings, but also contain anonymous
> and pointers to non anonymous functions (which return
> strings). These trees are not deep (max 3 levels) but can
> be rather broad.
> 
> -- 
> Vincent Penquerc'h