How to Enable and Detect Memory Leaks in the Unity Editor
(the post is automatically translated by AI) Introduction A memory leak occurs when allocated memory is never freed. While it doesn’t necessarily cause immediate crashes, a leak gradually reduces the available memory, degrading system performance over time. In severe cases, it can lead to unpredictable errors or even security vulnerabilities 1. Memory: “Hmm? Something smells.” One of the most common causes of memory leaks is forgetting to free dynamically allocated memory — for instance, calling new on the heap and never calling delete. The unpredictable timing of when this causes problems makes debugging quite difficult. ...