Re: Which thread does the garbage collector run in?

[Graham Wakefield <lists@...>]

I'm looking at the same thing now with my code.  PiL p297 (memory  
management, garbage collector's API) gives you more control over the  
collection.

But I'm not sure - if you run the collector in the parent lua_State,  
will this run the collector in the child states?

On Dec 7, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Chris wrote:

> I should have done more testing.  Running collectgarbage() in another
> thread seems to trigger the garbage collector from that thread.  So it
> appears the garbage collector may (randomly) run from any active
> thread.  So it's even worse than I thought :)
>
> CR
>
>
> On 12/7/06, Chris <coderight@gmail.com> wrote:
> > be collected in the thread they were created in.  From my tests it
> > looks like the garbage collector runs only in the original thread and
> > may collect objects that it didn't create which is likely to cause
> > problems.