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Local variables created within Lua Engine garbage collected?

 
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:15 pm    Post subject: Local variables created within Lua Engine garbage collected? Reply with quote

Are local variables created using Lua Engine automatically marked for destruction and freed after execution ends?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, unless they are created using create* like createMemo, in which case you have to call object.destroy() first.

also, the garbage collector doesn't run constantly, sometimes you may have to help it along in case you're creating more objects than the default will free

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the answer DB
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