Re: 5.1 collectgarbage: test case

["William Trenker" <wtrenker@...>]

On 3/12/06, Adam D. Moss <adam@gimp.org> wrote:
> Michael Broughton wrote:
> > This is normal. Lua grows it memory pool as needed, it does not reduce
> > it. also, collectgarbage("count") reports the current size of Lua's
> > memory pool, not how much of the pool is being used.
>
> Not... entirely... correct on either count!
>
> t.foo= "bar" -- <---- LOOK!  MAGIC!

Gasp!! Ok, that's different.  Well at least I know now.

Thanks, Adam.  I've spent several hours trying to sort this out.  Now
I can lay it to rest.

Cheers,
Bill