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 VAA23961; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:53:52 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24492 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:53:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0PKrov16896 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:53:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from dialup-64.156.207.87.dial1.sandiego1.level3.net ([64.156.207.87] helo=earthlink.net) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UDM1-0005fW-00; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:53:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3C51C5D8.60747CBC@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:53:44 -0800 From: Ken Rose Reply-To: rose@acm.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml and games References: <00FC6BAE-0F80-11D6-86C2-00039354191C@usermail.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020122204927.028b0db0@arda.pair.com> <20020126060133.365C.DAN@dgph.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Ken Rose Voice: 760.728.6993 VM Labs, Inc. FAX: 760.728.6993 520 San Antonio Rd. Email: kenr@vmlabs.com Mountain View, CA 94040 : rose@acm.org ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr