Re: GC Compaction

[John Belmonte <jvb@...>]

Peter Hill wrote:
> > I wouldn't say that is true.  Real-time games running on console systems
> > with no virtual memory face the same hurdles.  Keep an eye on how game
> > developers deal with these issues.
>
> Games in Lua? Or games in C?

I meant Lua, but the issue is present in any language promoting use of 
dynamic objects but lacking compaction, such as C++.

> Incremental GC is independent of compaction. I very much doubt 5.1 will have
> any compaction.

Sure it's independent of compaction, but it's vital for hard real-time 
systems.



-John




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