Sociomantic/Discord GC experience

[Jon Degenhardt]

On Tuesday, 31 March 2020 at 21:26:41 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March 2020 at 18:12:03 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> Sociomantic avoids unpredictable GC cycles, but doesn't 
>> disable it (they still allow collections periodically IIRC). 
>> And they are built to be as fast as possible.
>
> There were apps where a single GC cycle was not really an 
> option, because even a small GC pause would delay our 
> responding to requests where we couldn't afford the delay.  But 
> the solution was not really _that_ hard: be strict about using 
> recyclable buffers and object pools, preallocate in advance so 
> that there would be minimal resizing ... and then be really 
> strict about keeping that policy.

This is a very useful summary of Sociomantic's experience, thanks 
for taking the time to write it up and post it. The Discord blog 
post was a good read too.