cross post hn: (Rust) _ _ without GC

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:09:22 +0000
Kapps via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 22:02:46 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >
> > oh, how much usefullness there would be if D core suspended all 
> > other
> > activities and maked GC on par with "industrial strength" GCs!
> >
> > i'm trying to tell you that i LOVE GC. and i can't share the 
> > (growing?)
> > attitute that GC is a poor stepson. what we really need is a 
> > better GC,
> > not "no GC".
> 
> The GC is good for 90% of programs. It's not good for some 
> programs (games in particular are a common use case). Though even 
> in games it's fine in some situations, such as during loading. D 
> needs to support these cases.

there is nothing really hard to support that: just don't allocate in
main game loop. ;-)

on the other side good concurrent GC can work alongside with game
logic. game engine can fine-tune it if necessary.

also, nobody says that game engine can't use other allocators. as game
engines tend to skip standard libraries anyway, i can't see much sense
in making Phobos "good for game engines".
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