On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Mike Anderson <mike.r.anderson...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2. It would be great to reduce the amount of memory allocations. Yes, > I know memory is plentiful and GC is very cheap, but it's still not as > cheap as stack allocation and any noticeable GC pauses are not good > for the player experience in interactive games. For this reason, I > find myself using reduce and indexed loops a lot more than I guess > would normally be idiomatic, and conversely tend to avoid some of the > lazy constructs and functions that generate sequences. While Clojure > is great for a strategy game, I'd probably hesitate to use it for a > real-time 3D game. >
This can be made a bit better by turning Escape Analysis on? Have you tried that? The G1 collector is supposed to have lower latency. Have you tried it? http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
