From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA11783; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11754 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from beaune.inria.fr (beaune.inria.fr [128.93.8.3]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g71FarL00801 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by beaune.inria.fr (8.8.8/1.1.22.3/14Sep99-0328PM) id RAA0000012229; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:53 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Damien Doligez Message-Id: <200208011536.RAA0000012229@beaune.inria.fr> To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: ocaml, simd, & fftwgel RE: [Caml-list] Caml productivity. Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >From: John Max Skaller >Huh? Which parts of a real time interactive game aren't real time?? >The whole thing, from gameplay interaction to graphics and sound, >must be done in 'real-time'. I'd say no part of a real-time interactive game is real-time. To me, real-time means something like the Ariane 5 rocket, where you have a deadline every 36ms for the 12 hours of the mission. And if you miss even one deadline your 100M$ rocket will crash. On the other hand, in something like Unreal Tournament, a half-second freeze every 10 minutes is no big deal, and the users will not even complain about it. With Objective Caml on a fast machine, if you're not doing heap compaction, GC pauses should be somewhere between 1 and 10 milliseconds. Quite workable for an interactive game, I'd say, but then again it's not the future of my company that is at stake. -- Damien ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners