Game and GC

[Leonardo]

On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 02:16:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> The GC won't slow down your code in general (in fact, it will 
> probably speed it up in comparison to reference counting), but 
> whenever the GC does a collection, that means that it stops all 
> threads that it manages. So, you could suddenly have everything 
> stop for 100ms (the actual length of a collection is going to 
> depend on how much memory the GC has to scan, and I don't know 
> what the typical length of a collection is; that will depend on 
> the program). For programs that can afford to occasionally stop 
> like that, that's not a problem. For a game that's trying to 
> maintain 60fps, that's likely a really big deal.

> - Jonathan M Davis

That's what I thought for a game, but probably no one tested yet 
to see the impact. Thanks, I'll read on.