How cool is the texture management?

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• Scouser Guru

  March 2013 Accepted Answer

  As far as I am aware, all files, textures, sounds and music are loaded once and cached.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2013 Accepted Answer

  Yes as Scouser said, you can call them multiple times, but if they are already in memory, they will be reused

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• seppsepp Member

  March 2013

  Thanks for the information .
  
  And what about actively unload textures? Is it necessary or does Gideros handle this part as well? Based on some heuristics like memory workload or the rendering frequency of each texture?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2013 Accepted Answer

  Do you mean deleting texture from memory?
  If yes, then it's done by Lua garbage collection, which uses mark and sweep algorithm, which periodically checks all memory allocations, and if there are no references to them, marks them and then frees the memory.
  That is why texture is not immediately removed from the memory, when reference is deleted, but stays until next mark and sweep cycle.

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• seppsepp Member

  March 2013

  Ok, so it probably has some kind of this implemented http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/21402#Comment_21402 respectively the c counterpart.

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