Re: Userdata/Table Unification
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- Subject: Re: Userdata/Table Unification
- From: Edgar Toernig <froese@...>
- Date: 2004年7月26日 21:31:44 +0200
Mike Pall wrote:
>
> Edgar Toernig wrote (in the thread 'Lua 5 and tags'):
> >
> > Hmm... that gets me back to the old idea of merging userdata and
> > tables: give every table an additional void* field and remove the
> > userdata type completely *g*
>
> Maybe it's time to start a 'Userdata/Table Unification' thread ...
Umm... ehh... I wasn't really serious. Sorry.
Yes, some time ago I thought about it. But the (roughly) doubled memory
consumption, the need to protect the gc-callback and problems with the
metatable==type assumption let me drop that idea.
Ciao, ET.