Idea about memory management. Game related.

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In article <e6nl5h$1kcj$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Daniel Keep says...
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>> Yes.  And passing some type information to the GC would also help
>> considerably.  Currently, the GC must assume all data could potentially
>> be a pointer, while at the very least it should be possible for the GC
>> to avoid scanning array data if the arrays don't contain object
>> references or pointer types.  For games, such bulk data probably makes
>> up a significant chunk of allocated storage.
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>> Sean
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>I believe the Boehm GC has such an alloc function.  I think they call it
>"atomic" data or somesuch.

Didn't someone post a hack/mod to do just this over a year ago to the newsgroup?


If memory serves, all it did was somehow hint to the GC on new that the
allocated block doesn't contain pointer data - as you both have suggested.  It
did this transparently, by using D's type information.

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