Organising a Large A-V Performance Sketch - Should I make Classes? Memory Management

[sableRaph]

Hi @JonnieNightTime

@JonnieNightTime

Should I make a “Bank” Class?

@JonnieNightTime

Should I make a “Pattern” Class?

I’m not an expert but it seems to make sense to structure your code that way. I feel there might be more behind your question though. Why are you asking if you should use classes?

For your question about memory, this might be helpful:

Optimizing for memory with images

Hi, I can clearly see that it’s starting to make sense! Indeed it’s exactly what I (and others, @micycle @noel ) were suggesting. Note that the garbage collector is not instantly releasing a previous overwritten PImage. It’s up to the JVM (Java virtual machine, running the bytecode produced by the Java compiler) to decide when to free the previous image. Anyway it’s going to greatly reduce memory usage! I found those useful StackOverflow links about garbage collector and how to dea…