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Question by TMPxyz · Dec 03, 2013 at 09:38 AM · foreachgarbage

foreach on generics containers will allocate on the heap?

Hi, guys,

I just find out in Unity's profiler that calling foreach on a generic container will create garbage on heap( around 24B ).

And there's no garbage if I use the GetEnumerator and MoveNext() to run loop on the container.

That's kind of weird, because it doesn't seem to create garbage in a program compiled with Microsoft's .Net ( I didn't see such memory allocation with VisualStudio's profiler )

 List<int> m_lst = new List<int>();
 void Update()
 {
    foreach(var i in m_lst ){} //allocate 24B every frame
 }

Is it always like this? or just because I upgraded to Unity4.3? Could someone give a definite answer or take a test on older version of unity?

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avatar image ArkaneX · Dec 03, 2013 at 01:17 PM 1
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I suggest reading this Gamasutra article about memory management in Unity. Especially part entitled "Should you avoid foreach loops".

avatar image TMPxyz · Dec 03, 2013 at 02:46 PM 0
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wow, very nice article, thanks ArkaneX. I think this one is worth reading for every unity programmer. Unity should in their documents make an obvious link to this one :)

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