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Title: Dispose() and memory management
Post by: huma35 on January 17, 2015, 07:49:00 pm

Hi! I'm using SFML.NET for my project. My question is: What will happen if I don't use Dispose() function? Does GC ignore disposable objects even though they are out of scope and collectable? Thanks.

Title: Re: Dispose() and memory management
Post by: Ixrec on January 17, 2015, 07:53:40 pm

This question is not SFML-specific, so it's probably better asked elsewhere.

For example, this SO Q&A appears to answer your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4267729/what-happens-if-i-dont-call-dispose-on-the-pen-object

Title: Re: Dispose() and memory management
Post by: huma35 on January 17, 2015, 07:57:04 pm

Quote from: Ixrec on January 17, 2015, 07:53:40 pm

This question is not SFML-specific, so it's probably better asked elsewhere.

For example, this SO Q&A appears to answer your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4267729/what-happens-if-i-dont-call-dispose-on-the-pen-object

So I think I should call Dispose() for all objects from SFML library since they are unmanaged.

Title: Re: Dispose() and memory management
Post by: Laurent on January 17, 2015, 11:12:50 pm

You should read carefully all the answers and comments in this SO thread.

Calling Dispose() is only useful if you need deterministic resource destruction. But if you don't care, the GC will correctly collect the instances, and since SFML classes correctly implement the IDisposable interface, unmanaged resources will be correctly destroyed as well.

When something's not clear, you can have a look at how the examples of the SFML.Net SDK are written, and use them as a good reference.