Do threads take Memory Space?

[CybeCC]

As the title implies, I want to know if threads take memory space and thus if I should use task.cancel() on threads (which aren’t loops).

[0786ideal (ideal)]

tasks should be automatically collected after completion, and every object takes up memory xd

[CybeCC]

So I shouldn’t really care about using them?

[0786ideal (ideal)]

If you are really concerned about memory leaks, simply cancel them at the end of the script

[CybeCC]

It just loops through a table to damage those characters, afterwards nothing more

[0786ideal (ideal)]

then it shouldn’t be heavy, also why do you need thread? you yield something? if not then you can remove it

[CybeCC]

I just put an for i, v in pairs() do since if the table is too big, it can take some time

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

They will only take up memory as long as they keep working. The garbage collector is automatic, so it will clear up threads that are not running. For example:

task.spawn(function()
    task.wait(1)
    -->> thread gets garbage collected after 1 second because nothing else will happen
end)

task.spawn(function()
    for i, v in ipairs({1, 2, 3}) do
        print(i)
    end
    -->> thread gets garbage collected after printing "1, 2, 3"
end)

local foreverTask = task.spawn(function()
    while task.wait() do
        print("running...")
    end
    -->> thread never gets collected because this will run forever *
end)

task.wait(1)

task.cancel(foreverTask) --> * unless you cancel it, in which it can now be collected