D for Game Development

[Alex Parrill via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 15:10:59 UTC, Brandon Ragland wrote:
>
> It's a dog because Java is a dog. But that's not because of the 
> GC.
>
> It's not really that bad either, I can open up Minecraft at any 
> time and have it sit in the background quietly using ~800Mb ram 
> and virtually no cpu time.

It's mostly because, in Java, every one of those tiny immutable 
`(x,y,z)` tuples and vectors have to be allocated on the heap.

D is nice because you can allocate such small things on the 
stack, but it also doesn't have a massively optimized collector 
either.

> Either your kid has tons of mods in their Minecraft or your 
> computer is a bit dated.

Tons of mods is the only way I can (or more accurately, can't) 
play MC anymore.