Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:
Hallo,
I am thinking about doing some basic 3D graphics with Gambit-C.Although I am sure code generated by Gambit-C is fast enough[1], I am a bit worried about the garbage collector. What's the type of garbage collector used by Gambit? If it kicks in during interactive rendering, should I expect annoying pauses?
Unfortunately, yes you should expect such problems. If I'm correct, gambit's gc is a regular stop & copy style collector, which stops the world at each gc. I think that Marc has changing this to either a generationnal or incremental gc, which would lead respectively to smaller collection pauses or virtually none (but maybe with execution speed reduced?).
Still, if you pre-allocate lots of space, gc shouldn't occur too often and you can always force a gc with (##gc) at opportune moments.
David