Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 14:53:09 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 April 2024 at 10:52:04 UTC, Ogi wrote:
>> I wrote a small script that simulates a video game. A game 
>> scene contains around ten thousand objects, and on every 
>> update it creates some new objects and destroys some old ones. 
>> It runs for 36,000 iterations (simulating 10 minutes of 
>> exciting 60 FPS gameplay) and measures minimum, mean and 
>> maximum time per update. One version uses GC, the other uses 
>> `malloc`/`free`.
>
> Very similar test..
> D with LDC showed more FPS than Rust and C++ :P
> https://github.com/NCrashed/asteroids-arena

This is all very well, but this side thread is conflating the 
existing GC with the one we are postulating for D that would be 
the game changer, with performance as per the article linked when 
this thread was started.