Will this be garbage collected?

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#1

Hello. Lets say I create some kind of class:

local classObject = classModule.new(Put_Some_Args_In_Here)

Now lets say that at some point I now no longer need this class, and need to destroy it. Can I just set the classObject variable equal to nil? Like this?

local classObject = classModule.new(Put_Some_Args_In_Here)
-- Running a whole bunch of code
-- ...
-- Done running this code, and I no longer need this class
classObject = nil

This is setting the classObject variable to nil. But, is it’s previous value still stored in memory somewhere? Or is it’s previous value also destroyed now?

#2

I’m pretty confident that any data with no references will be garbage collected. This is what I use in my scripts with no issues.

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#3

When the variable goes out of scope or when it’s reference is set to nil, the garbage collector should collect it unless something else is still holding a reference to it. You should check your classModule to make sure it doesn’t put the table inside of some other table, if it does do that you’ll have to add a :Destroy() function to it to get rid of those references.

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#4

If there is no reference to it, it should be garbage collected. Make sure that any instances or connections associated with your object have been properly taken care of.

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