Tip for unloading tile map

Rickyngk

Dear,
I've just found out an interesting issue (maybe everybody knew it before)
According to Gideros example about tile map, to load tilemap data:

local map = require("desert")

if using several tilemaps, memory is increased after "require" even if we set map to nil (map = nil). To unload data completely, uses:

map = nil package.loaded["desert"] = nil

Regards,

techdojo

Interesting - it seems ironic that you have to be just as careful (if not more so) with memory management in a managed environment like Lua as you do in traditional languages.

phongtt

That helped reduce memory consumption from 90MB down to 9MB in our game.
What a disaster ^:)^

techdojo

Ouch - that's a BIG saving!