From: Ken Rose <kenarose@earthlink.net>
To: Daniel Phillips <dan@dgph.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml and games
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:53:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C51C5D8.60747CBC@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020126060133.365C.DAN@dgph.net>
Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> If the GC is not purely incremental -- if it has to do some
> sort of full collect every so often -- and if the time needed
> to do such a full collect is comparable to or longer than one
> game cycle, then you are stuck, aren't you? Is there anything
> you can do?
Not necessarily. Most games have a series of "levels", or something
similar, with a pause for the human to congratulate himself, and for the
program to swap data around. If you can make the full collections run
(only) then, you're OK.
- ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-21 23:27 cgillot
2002-01-21 22:43 ` [Caml-list] Re: your mail Markus Mottl
2002-01-22 0:03 ` [Caml-list] Re: about toplevels cgillot
2002-01-22 20:41 ` Chris Hecker
2002-01-22 21:35 ` [Caml-list] Ocaml and games Matthew D Moss
2002-01-22 21:43 ` Will Benton
2002-01-22 23:53 ` Eric C. Cooper
2002-01-23 0:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2002-01-23 1:23 ` Yaron M. Minsky
2002-01-23 3:29 ` Doug Bagley
2002-01-23 5:20 ` Chris Hecker
2002-01-24 3:02 ` Matthew D Moss
2002-01-24 6:59 ` Chris Hecker
2002-01-25 20:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-25 20:53 ` Ken Rose [this message]
2002-01-25 22:16 ` Chris Hecker
2002-01-25 23:00 ` Thatcher Ulrich
2002-01-23 8:39 ` Sven
2002-01-23 15:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-01-22 9:00 ` [Caml-list] Re: your mail Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-01-22 13:12 ` Markus Mottl
[not found] ` <4.3.2.7.2.20020123011902.00cde840@arda.pair.com>
2002-01-23 9:35 ` [Caml-list] Re: about toplevels Christian Gillot
2002-01-23 10:20 ` Chris Hecker
2002-01-24 16:03 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-01-24 17:20 ` Christophe Raffalli
2002-01-24 17:34 ` Christian Gillot
2002-01-24 20:42 ` [Caml-list] gotchas [Was: toplevels] Ian Zimmerman
2002-01-25 10:59 ` Christian Gillot
2002-01-25 11:17 ` Sven
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