Reviving YAGE

[Ryan Voots]

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 21:37:22 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
wrote:
> If you didn't deal with GC pause times, you will have quite 
> some fun with it. I wrote a small game engine in D, and I ended 
> up running the garbage collector every frame to get stable 
> framerates. Not doing it resultet in 3-10 second pauses during 
> gameplay because of GC collection.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR2EQy3RRyM
>
> Because the GC used up to 8 milliseconds every frame (which is 
> 50% for a 60 FPS game), I finally removed the GC from druntime 
> and I'm using a GC free version of D since then. This however 
> comes with maintaining a custom version of druntime and phobos 
> (stripped down to about 10% of the modules) and writing my own 
> standard library.
>
> You can read more about the GC issues here:
> http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=20
>
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut

I actually saw your webpage after some googling about d's garbage 
collector.  What I'll probably think about doing when I get the 
engine running is make it easy to do that kind of change like 
you're doing where you can bring it in and out since it could be 
great for performance but might really hurt development time.  
One of the large reasons I wanted to go with D was because of the 
GC helping deal with a lot of the boilerplate stuff I kept 
dealing with in previous iterations of the game i'm making (long 
story short it's had about 30 rewrites/redesigns because i can 
never make up my mind).