Re: Running lua code as as a single coroutine without creating lua thread
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- Subject: Re: Running lua code as as a single coroutine without creating lua thread
- From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@...>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:14:04 +0400
* Sam Roberts (vieuxtech@gmail.com) wrote:
> The thread will garbage collected if you don't keep a reference to it.
>
> You shouldn't close it, but when you don't want it anymore, you should
> remove references to it so that it can be garbage collected.
>
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_newthread: There is no
> explicit function to close or to destroy a thread. Threads are subject
> to garbage collection, like any Lua object.
Since I'm new to lua, perhaps you'll forgive me a basic question: where
will references to a thread stored in this case:
lua_State* lua = lua_open();
lua_State* thread = lua_newthread(lua);
lua_getglobal(thread, "somefunc");
lua_resume(thread, 0);
and how do I remove them?
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