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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re:  lua garbage collection and lists..
From:       Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf () tecgraf ! puc-rio ! br>
Date:       1999-08-21 16:02:07
Message-ID: 199908211602.NAA05911 () gauguin ! tecgraf ! puc-rio ! br
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>From lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br Sat Aug 21 04:39:47 1999
>From: Mike Cuddy <mcuddy@fensende.com>

>I've got lists made up of LUA tables, implemented as dummy-header-node
>circularly-linked-lists, with 'next' and 'prev' entries in each table
>for linkage.
>[...]
>Assuming that no other variables reference this table, will it ever be GC'ed?

Yes. Lua uses mark-and-release and so works for circular lists.
--lhf

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