h2. Procedure:

1. Open the attached project.
2. Load the Sample Scene.
3. Enter playmode.
4. Press C to instantiate a game object with a script machine.
5. Press M to destroy the game object.
6. Open the memory profiler under Window -> Analysis -> Memory Profiler and capture a new snapshot.
7. Go to the tree map and filter for scriptmachine.

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h2. Outcome:

The scriptmachine is still in memory.

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Reproducible in VisualScripting {}1.7.8{}, 1.6.1, 1.5.1 on Unity {}2021.3.11f1{}, 2020.3.35.f1