This sounds terrific, and I look forward to seeing it implemented in a way that makes CC run better, but my inner skeptic is demanding to know what the downside might be to this. I cannot think of anything off the top of my head, but I'm not a very good coder, nor am I familiar with CC's Lua engine inner workings.

Okay, if chocolate isn't enough, then what would be? The brain script is a fancy idea. Im pretty sure you'll have to call the script in the Brain code at some point, though. Is there any way you could implement this automatically in future versions of CC? Also, for certain lua scripts that you want to repeat themselves rapidly (within the ten seconds), it might be best add the garbagecollect to the function by hand, such as with the FBMs grow cursor. I had to tag on one other line on that so i could have multiple items grow at the same time. Otherwise, after a mere three, cc barfs on my keyboard. (i do enjoy chocolate though )

Huh. That explains a lot. Be nice if this was handled by the lua wrapper or whatever in the next release.

Kalidor, you are a ♥♥♥♥ genious.
Great to see that a way to plug the memory leak has been found

I just tested it and WOW it really works... I played a insane death match that would have been super laggy or even crashed but it ran perfect.
There's not enough chocolate in the world for this.

OK idea here... BTW I'm loopy from meds so it may seem incoherent so ye be warned.

Water is impossible in CC b/c of the physics and lag and it would need Lua b/c it will need different physics. What if you made one, and had this garbage dump thing run every 100 or 200 ms? That would kill the Lua lag, and the only lag left would be from the amount of water the whatever is.

Put it into that water demo I made and see how much it reduces the lag. That doesn't have complex physics at all, but it still lags like anything.

Can you link me?

Whitty, this wouldn't really help with something like that.

Garbage collection is not magic; the reason a water mod won't work is because of the CPU demand, which garbage collection does nothing to reduce.

Garbage collection reduces memory bloat by removing isolated variables and old definitions of them. This means that for mods with lots of tables and sequential variables (TLB's computer) there's serious performance benefits because there's less memory strain.

It's not going to make the game run any faster. In fact, the more frequently garbage collection is done, the more load is placed on the processor.

It works best on GIANT Lua mods, things that act in ways CC never dreamed of. If it's laggy because it checks every pixel and and particle, then deflects the close ones, it isn't going to become Un-laggy.

It doesn't even check every particle, just other water particles (in a global water table), and does deflection based on that. It's still pretty intensive for all intents and purposes though, but it shouldn't be. It's really not that many iterations, in programming terms, but I suppose that on top of the engine is what's killing it.
Regardless, garbage collection shouldn't help it much. You can try though.
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Could be a good idea to unlock that topic for a day or so.

A Moderator to the rescue *dun dun daaaa*

A lagless computer mod? Could it really be? I are amazed!

seems like a pretty obvious thing to do, any time you handle tons of declarations and tables you should be doing this

you should not be collecting garbage 24/7 with your brain just for the sake of it

it won't improve your performance unless you're running scripts made by someone who doesn't know lua(anyone making anything that actually needs this would probably have it included already)

Umm will this help this?