Incremental garbage collection

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 21 January 2022 at 20:22:15 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> Well I was using the term incorrectly, "amortized" in the sense 
> the large majority of callback will not allocate, so in other 
> words, the opposite :)

Yes, that is different, but actually using a stackless coroutine 
can be a solution to spread out the load when you need to. In D I 
guess you could have do it as a state machine using a switch 
statement. I've never done this in practice though…

> pushack_back leading to realloc can make a lot more trouble 
> because it moves large amount of memory. Delay lines may need 
> to be allocated with a max size / pessimized for that reason.

What is pushack_back? You can also build a delay with a chain of 
smaller fixed size buffers, although a bit unusual perhaps. If 
you need a filter you can do that in a smaller buffer. So many 
implementation options!