Garbage Collection - Automatic Memory Management - GameMaker 2

What happens to structs or arrays in GameMaker once they're no longer referenced by anything? Nothing to worry about; the GameMaker garbage collector will take care of that for you!

I've wanted to make a video on this since 2.3 came out, but early on in the beta it was slightly broken and by the time it got patched up I'd kinda forgotten about it. Anyway, the companion video on weak references should be out soon.

GameMaker Studio 2.3 playlist:
   • GameMaker: New & Beta Features  
GameMaker 3D playlist:
   • 3D in Game Maker Studio 2  

0:00 Introduction
1:30 the GameMaker garbage collector
2:35 the garbage collector in action
6:53 Other garbage collector functions
11:29 Do we have destructors? (spoiler: no, but...)
13:13 Final thoughts

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