From: Nicolas Boulay <nicolas@boulay.name>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] meta-gc (Re: concurrent gc?)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
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2014-07-24 19:37 GMT+02:00 Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>:
> ...
>
> to kick the question up a meta-level: Does anybody have thoughts on
> how to best orthogonalize actual memory allocation from where the
> application says it wants it? I mean if I write a stupid loop that
> makes a zillion particles in the middle of each frame render then yes
> I'm an idiot, sure... but what things can be done to actually allow
> such idiocy to squeak by?
> ...
>
On the game world, they have invented entity-component-system (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system ) data-driven
software architecture. The idea is to be very flexible with a "generic kind
of object" (entity), with typed component. An entity is only an integer.
The component are found inside a collection with the entity identifier.
So each component are allocated in it's own contener, so data are more
compact, and memory access appear less random.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-24 17:37 Raoul Duke
2014-07-24 19:34 ` John F. Carr
2014-07-24 19:46 ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-25 7:28 ` Nicolas Boulay [this message]
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