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- Subject: Re: Can userdate have references to lua objects?
- From: "Peter Hill" <corwin@...>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 23:17:45 +0800
RLake:
> We have a memory leak, even though we're using a garbage collector and
> this was precisely the sort of problem that garbage collectors were
> intended to solve: dealing with circular references.
Roberto Ierusalimschy:
> You may not like how Lua works in that case, but that does not make it
> a memory leak. As long as both objects are reacheable from the program
> (root set), "fail" to collect them cannot be a leak.
Roberto, a hyperthetical question for you...
If an object were accessible ONLY by Weak links and the GC continually
refused to collect that object then would you consider that a "Memory
Leak"... or at least an "undesirable behaviour"?
*cheers*
Peter Hill