If the thread is known to run quickly and won't use up all memory, you
could try simply turning off garbage collection while drawing, and turning
it back on after.
That said, Oscar Blumberg has a PR (
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8699) for an incremental garbage
collector which is targeted at such uses. It should be merged for v0.4.
Cheers,
Kevin
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Simon Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering about how much of a burden Julia's garbage collector will
> be for state of the art 3D graphics.
> Apple always had the upper hand with smooth animations and very little ram
> consumption and from what I've read this is/was mainly due to Android using
> Java with a gc.
> What options do I have for Julia?
> Is it easy to create a data structure not relying on the gc?
> How much effort would it take, to create a drawing thread, which will not
> get stopped by the gc? (under the assumption, that the thread only uses gc
> free data structures)
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
