Re: hi, does lua's gc collect the coroutines at 'suspended' status?

Subject: Re: hi, does lua's gc collect the coroutines at 'suspended' status?
From: Tang Daogang &lt;daogangtang@ ... &gt;
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:47:23 +0800

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:

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> Subject: hi, does lua's gc collect the coroutines at 'suspended' status?
>
> hi,
>
> if I remove the reference of corounte A, and A is at 'suspended' status?
> Does lua's gc collect this coroutine? and if at 'running', 'dead' ?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> --
> Nothing is impossible.

Yes it will be collected. Probably best; if you have no reference left to
the thread, you cannot resume it.

It will even collect the running thread if not anchored. See this thread for
some info;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/94150/focus=94172