Deallocating Variables

[rdg]

just an idea:

theArray = #()

only guessing ...

Georg

[Wahooney]

No, I think that just creates a new array, the old array will still be in memory waiting for garbage collection.

[erilaz]

I've used this in the past:

theArray.count = 0

It clears the array... not sure about the memory though.

[Bobo]

I've used this in the past:

theArray.count = 0

It clears the array... not sure about the memory though.

Generally, the memory will be released at the next manual or automatic garbage collection, both light and full.

If you want to clean up manually, call

gc light:true

This will clean up memory that is NOT related to the scene objects, will preserve the undo stack and will be much faster than full gc().
Max 8 and 9 have much better automatic garbage collection which calls gc light:true internally whenever memory is needed and would release whatever is left of the old arrays, variable values etc. too.

[Wahooney]

Thanks Bobo, I was kinda afraid of that, even calling gc lite:true seems to slow my script down.

It's not a huge script so maybe it would be best if I just rewrote it, I might be able to speed things up a bit that way.

Thanks for all the help guys :thumbsup:

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