On 29-Aug-05, at 3:47 PM, Klaus Ripke wrote:
Sure. Lua 5.1's incremental GC is better at cleaning up fd's fast, but it still wouldn't be good enough for scanning a zillion files.The garbage collector will deal with it eventually, which is probably good enough... for one-shot-scripts, yes. For a long running app, you should always control your ressource usage at least by forcing a full gc run every request or some. examples where lazy file closing blows up quite quickly include scanning maildirs etc.