Does passing a table through a Bindable Event create a reference or a whole new table?

[IzzyIA2016 (Monke)]

I’m passing a table to another script in my game and I’m trying to make sure I don’t use up more memory than I need to. When I do this, do I create a copy which takes up twice as much memory or does it create a reference to the original table?

[dthecoolest]

It’s a copy, if you want a reference use a module script approach:

Passing tables through bindable events

If you are using an OO approach, you can still use ModuleScripts to do the job, you would just have to store the objects somewhere, like in the original module: local module = { Storage = {}, Methods = {} } module.Methods.__index = module.Methods function module.new(key) local object = setmetatable({ -- attributes here },module.Methods) local key = key or {} module.Storage[key] = object return object, key end function module.get(key) return module.Stor…