Any way to destroy internal classes that were instantiated?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m building a script that will instantiate some internal script when called. As in,

public class Example : MonoBehaviour
{
   private List<NewClass> newClassList = new List<NewClass>();

   public void MakeNewClass()
   {
      newClassList.Add(new SomeClass());
   }

   public void Activate()
   {
      foreach (NewClass class in newClassList) { class.DoSomething(); }
   }
}

internal class SomeClass : NewClass
{
   // does something
}

Now, this function worked just fine… but the thing is, I worry that that would be best practice to do so.

I am creating new class every time NewClass is created via new SomeClass(), but I never get to unload? or destroy? them. Whatever the correct term for that is. I am creating more and more classes without ever removing them, so I worry that this might cause some issue in the future.

Is there anyway I can destroy internal classes? I can’t seem to find a way to do that.

2

You are talking about a stack overflow, when memory on the stack exceeds available memory. In managed languages like C++ you have to manage memory yourself, C# uses garbage collection, so whatever isn’t being used is removed from memory by that. If you want to ‘destroy’ an instance of a class then set it to null, that should make the GC dispose of it in memory. This is my 250th answer! Thanks!