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Re: garbage collection pauses: too long for a game?

Kalle Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

 > I'm thinking of adding Guile support in DUMB
 > (http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/) but I fear the gameplay could be
 > ruined by Guile stopping to collect garbage.  Is garbage collection
 > fast enough to go unnoticed?
 > 
 > Also, can it be synchronised in a network game, so that everyone's
 > Guile collects garbage at the same time?  This could stop GCing
 > players from being shot.

Abuse (www.crack.com) is written in Lisp, so what you want to attemt
is certainly possible.  You might want to take a look at abuse to see
if they do anything special to manage gc.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il