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Hi!
My question is mostly to developers.
Is the current scheme with explicit retain-release a strict design solution and won't be changed?
I mean, do pull requests with code tending to use value semantics need to be rewritten to on-heap object management?

In particular, I'm currently writing enhancement for thread module, and I've mostly redone Variant type to use as little allocations as possible, making it effectively a value type. And I tend to re-do all places where variant is used in the same way.

So my main question is, are such changes potentially acceptable?

Thanks!

Everything entering lua has to use this, that's pretty much the only rule.
Sadly, however, I fear your work on threading won't make it in, since I've recently been working on rewriting the entire module.

Sad things you say. I've managed to write and test to some degree passing complex types between threads, including parameter/result tuples. Okay, I'll post a pull request for you to take anything you find suitable.

BTW, could you please point out what parts of thread module will be re-done, so I won't be coding things scheduled for replacement?
My next idea was to write lock-free channels to replace existing event chains and inter-thread messaging.