Re: [GD-General] The D Programming Language

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Dec 27, 2001 at 01:26 -0500, Patrick M Doane wrote:
> 
>   - While modern garbage collectors can be very efficient, I still worry
> that they may not be appropriate for gaming.  I will be interested to see
> the results of Chris Hecker's work with OCaml, which has an excellent GC
> implementation.  The D programming language might want to consider memory
> management via regions.  This can be a good compromise for realtime
> applications.

IMO the time for real GC in game engines is just about ripe.
Reference counting via smart pointers is not unheard of in C++ game
engines, and and OCaml-like GC should be a big improvement over ref
counting.

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Thatcher Ulrich <tu...@tu...>
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