Reviving YAGE

[JoeCoder]

On 2/5/2014 4:27 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> How do you deal with GC pause times?

I had originally hoped to make the render loop GC-free and have games 
designed so they only run a gc cleanup when a dialog window was opened. 
  I had been pushing for the @nogc attribute so I could easily ensure no 
collections would occur inside the render loop.  I hoped to use 
freelists for objects so they could be reclaimed after deletion.

I was also hoping to push for a time-limited GC collection, e.g. 
gc.collect(10!msec);.  This would run the gc for up to 10 milliseconds 
and then stop.  I would set the time to 16.7ms minus the max of the 
current physics and render frame times, to ensure it always ran at 60 
fps.  But I don't know if it's technically possible to construct a GC 
this way.