Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[francesco cattoglio]

On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 04:26:10 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Sorry, I obviously mean, "the only *games* company..."
That was a given. However I think AAA titles have the manpower to 
avoid those pauses, since the amount of work toward optimization 
is huge anyway, am I right? Ofc you still need minimal backend 
from the compiler and runtime support. If you lack control on 
internals, there's no way for you to optimize anything.
> And people seem to forget promptly after every single time I 
> repeat myself:
>  * The GC frequency of execution is directly proportional to 
> the amount of
> _free memory_. In console games; NONE.
>  * The length of the associated pause is directly proportional 
> to the
> amount of memory currently in use. In console games; all of it.
For "simple" games, it would be nice to have a better GC and cut 
down allocations from the standard library. I guess that would 
suffice, no need to move to ARC.