[Solved] Is there a memory leak when creating units, points, players?

[FUJI]

As I said, is there a memory leak in the sc2 trigger editor too? Do I need to remove location leaks and set it null? Is this is like a World Editor?
When I opened a campaign map, I saw that they're not removing points or locations or setting it to null in the script, why?

 

[Muhahahahaaa]

nope

the only thing you should worry about are actors

 

[Statharas]

As far as I know, there's a garbage collection system. Not sure how flawless it is.

 

[IcemanBo]

You don't need pay attention on memory leaks in SC2 Editor. There is a garbage collector as Statharas said.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Do I need to remove location leaks and set it null?

Why on earth should you? That would be a pretty major bug. No user should ever have to remove leaks like that in a garbage collected script system.

Is this is like a World Editor?

WorldEdit did not leak as far as I knew and if it did you could always restart it in a second as it was hardly real time. The actual game process and sessions is entirely a different question and yes, they leaked very badly no mater what you did (unit leaks especially).

When I opened a campaign map, I saw that they're not removing points or locations or setting it to null in the script, why?

Because the reference counter for locals declared outside arguments is decremented correctly so there are no reference leaks (no need to null). Also SC2 uses a garbage collector (like JAVA and C#) so there is no need to manually destroy objects like groups and locations as they are removed when there are no references to them.

SC2 can still leak, but that is mostly non-trigger stuff like units and effect chains that are never removed due to how their data was configured.

players?

Players never leaked in WC3 as they never could be fully recycled and at most 16 existed at any time. Same as how floating text could not be a major leak as at most 100 could exist at any time before the last one is overwritten.

 

[Statharas]

Moving this to Solved forum.