Memory Leaks

[Berb]

So what's the deal with memory leaks in StarCraft II? Did blizzard add some sort of garbage collection so we no longer have to destroy handles such as groups that are no longer being used?

 

[tagg1080]

From Blizzard:

-- Complex types and automatic deletion --

Many native types represent "complex" objects (i.e. larger than 4 bytes). The script language automatically keeps track of these objects and deletes them from memory when they are no longer used (that is, when nothing in the script references them any longer). The types which benefit from automatic deletion are:

abilcmd, bank, camerainfo, marker, order, playergroup, point, region, soundlink, string, text, timer, transmissionsource, unitfilter, unitgroup, unitref, waveinfo, wavetarget

Other object types must be explicitly destroyed with the appropriate native function when you are done using them.

 

[Berb]

Where is that documented?

 

[tagg1080]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/1571197-post5.html

 

[PurgeandFire]

You can also view it here:
http://paste.sc2mapster.com/1979/

They do have a garbage collector, but we don't really know yet how well it works. But that isn't of much concern anyway since it is out of our reach. (They only added natives to destroy/remove types not used by the collector, or at least for the most-part)