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On 12 September 2016 at 13:58, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> Does collectgarbage('count') report only the memory the Lua core allocated or would it contain memory that a C function allocated using malloc()?

Lua has no insight into what C code does with malloc(). Therefore it's
only memory allocated through Lua (or a C function allocating memory
through a Lua API).

Regards,
Matthew