Idea about memory management. Game related.

[Marcio]

Chad J wrote:
> I intend to use D for game programming, and I will probably be facing a 
> lot of the memory management problems that other D game programmers seem 
> to be facing.


	Can't we rephrase your message as "We need incremental, time-bounded, 
Garbage Collection for D instead of Mark & Sweep" ?

	Dave Ungar has done this type of stuff for Smalltalk a few decades ago. 
It makes your app 3..5% slower, but without long pauses. Can you afford 
5% degradation? See 
http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/papers/papersByOthers/visualworksGCTheory.html


	I also remember the Train Algorithm in an ECOOP conference, probably in 
1995. Just over a decade ago :-) It was done in Beta originally. Here: 
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/Papers/Train/train.html . I think I heard 
those guys ended up working on it for the JVM, and it got added to the 
HotSpot JVM. See  http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/gc9.html

	Pure Mark&Sweep is a bit too basic these days.

marcio