Avoiding allocation in broadcast server

[Casper Færgemand" <shorttail at hotmail.com>]

On Saturday, 8 February 2014 at 11:15:31 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> However, if this one allocation really is a problem, you might 
> want to implement a simple free-list kind of allocator to 
> allocate from. Say, pre-allocate N string buffers with M length 
> and treat them as a free-list. If the free-list is full (all N 
> buffers are being processed), wait until there is a free space 
> before reading another datagram from the socket.
>
> This makes program performance deterministic depending on the 
> worst-case complexity achieved when allocating from the 
> free-list. GC cycles are never run if the program doesn't 
> allocates GC memory.

Meh, it sounds rather ghastly. Perhaps if I periodically call 
GC.collect instead I can keep it down to a manageable delay.