Lua reloads

[NRH-AA]

It seems when you create tables globally in lua and do /reset and the table repopulates. The memory is not freed from the previous tables. Does anyone know something about this?

[ArturKnopik]

Probably Lua is still holding references to global variables, and the reload just shadows them. This prevents the reference count from dropping to zero. As long as any reference exists, the garbage collector won't remove this data

[Zbizu]

aside from event registration (eg. adding onUse script to a lever), everything else is not cleared at the time of reload
so if you don't design your scripts to be reload-proof, they will execute second time at the time of reloading

example of script that runs every load/reload:

function test()
    print("loaded!")
end
test()

example of script that ignores reload:

function test()
    print("loaded!")
end

if not YOUR_CUSTOM_SYSTEM_INIT then
    test()
    YOUR_CUSTOM_SYSTEM_INIT = true
end

[NRH-AA]

aside from event registration (eg. adding onUse script to a lever), everything else is not cleared at the time of reload so if you don't design your scripts to be reload-proof, they will execute second time at the time of reloading

example of script that runs every load/reload:

function test()
print("loaded!")
end
test()
example of script that ignores reload:

function test()
print("loaded!")
end

if not YOUR_CUSTOM_SYSTEM_INIT then
test()
YOUR_CUSTOM_SYSTEM_INIT = true
end

Interesting I will play around with that. Thanks.