Do persistent Objects need to be freed?

Question

Hi all,

Sorry for the basic question. I have some data classes that inherit from Object, are created at the beginning of the game and never destroyed.

The documentation says that Object.free() should be called for Objects to avoid memory leaks. Am I correct in believing this isn't necessary if the Object is never actually removed?

Basically, does the application automatically delete everything when it's closed? Or do I need to call Object.free() somewhere (such as _on_exit_tree) to ensure the application doesn't leave anything around?

Thanks!

Comments

Very good Question dude, hope you get it answered.
Godot boasts about its garbage collection and recommends using Reference (Think its called something else in Godot4) instead.

For me personally can't get the C way of having to do everything yourself out of my system and always do

func foo():
    var array = Array()
    #
    # use array here
    #
    array = null   
    return

Answer 1

All objects will be "disposed" when the program is closed. The OS will make sure of this.

Comments

To slightly expand on this, operating systems will reclaim all resources when a program exits. Any existing Godot objects that haven't been properly disposed will just cease to exist upon program exit, just like in any other language.