Janitor

Janitor library. This branch is for the thread safe version of Janitor that does not use a global state.

Original was made by Validark, however he doesn't really maintain that version anymore. It does have all the original documentation for it though.

Now on roblox-ts!

Projects that use Janitor

If your project uses Janitor, leave a PR on the readme!

• Armtastic by Mullets Mafia Red
• Be an Alien: Renewal by PeZsmistic
• Benchmarker by boatbomber
• RBLX04 by movsb
• RepoToRoblox by a great friend (boatbomber lol)
• Science Simulator by Interbyte Studio
• Studio Tweaks by PeZsmistic
• Bloopville (NOT RELEASED) by BloopVille Team
• Tropical Town Tycoon by Mightybull Games

Why use Janitor?

• Janitor makes dealing with garbage collection much less annoying and stressful because it manages them all in a nice interface.
• Janitor:Add returns whatever was added, which Maid doesn't.
• Janitor:Add also accepts a custom method, if you want to call :Stop on a Tween. You can see this being used in the JanitorPromise library.
• Janitor:Add also accepts a custom reference to store under, which keeps the api more consistent. (Maid.A = X and Maid:GiveTask(Y) vs Janitor:Add(X, nil, "A") and Janitor:Add(Y))
• Janitor also allows linking to an Instance, so when the Instance is destroyed, the Janitor cleans up everything along with it.

Some less important benefits

• Runs a little better than Maid does.

Performance

Janitor runs incredibly well. It is quite a bit faster than Maid and around as fast as Dumpster. You can run the benchmark for yourself using boatbomber's benchmark plugin and the bench found here.

[image: Benchmark results]

Benchmarks ran on an R9 3900X with 32GB of DDR4-3600 RAM.