Idea about memory management. Game related.

[Sean Kelly]

pragma wrote:
> In article <e6nl5h$1kcj$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Daniel Keep says...
> [snip]
>>> 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.
>> 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.

Yeah, I remember that as well.  Haven't taken the time to try and find 
the NG posts about it though.


Sean