May families waste your CPU power?

I have several families on my project and some of them contains more than 1000 sprites that are continuously destroying them self and recreate again.

More ore less the count of the objects within this family may vary from 1000 to 1400 but most of them are copies of the same sprite.

Since there are some families I just use one time into the game (for example I check the family on start of the layout and I will not use it anymore) I was wandering if maintaining the list of the objects into the family it costs something in terms of CPU. If so, is there a way to remove, delete or disable the family?

Thanks

You can test this yourself. See Answer your own performance questions with measurements

In general families should have little overhead, but as ever, the most important rule when dealing with performance is to optimise things based on actual measurements, not speculation.

You can test this yourself. See Answer your own performance questions with measurements

In general families should have little overhead, but as ever, the most important rule when dealing with performance is to optimise things based on actual measurements, not speculation.

Ashley thanks for your reply, I completely agreed with you, test by myself is the best choice but in this case I cannot disable the family after my check and it will continuously manage the list of the family content.

Since you said family may introduce a little overhead is there a chance you will plan to add a disable action for families?

thanks again.

No, I didn't mean that, I meant that as in they should have negligible overhead. It shouldn't matter at all, but as I mentioned, anything involving performance ought to be verified with measurements.