Smart pointers instead of GC?

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Feb 1 01:31:19 PST 2014


Am 01.02.2014 08:35, schrieb Manu:
> On 1 February 2014 16:26, Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com
> ...
>
> No serious console game I'm aware of has ever been written in a language
> with a GC. Casual games, or games that don't attempt to raise the bar
> may get away with it, but that's not the industry I work in.

Not sure how much serious you consider The Witcher 2 for the XBox 360, 
they used a GC in their engine.

http://www.makinggames.de/index.php/magazin/2155_porting_the_witcher_2_on_xbox_360

Yes, they faced some issues with it, but it wasn't thrown away, rather 
optimized how it was being used.

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Paulo



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