Re: GC stall in luaC_separateudata

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

Niklas Frykholm wrote:
> I have examined the issue some more and it is not only the mirroring 
> of the world that is the problem, it is also that a lot of objects get 
> created. Every frame about 300 objects are created which means 36000 
> objects in 2 seconds (at 60 Hz).
>
> Most of these objects come from arithmetic operations on vectors 
> (which are represented as userdata objects), so my best idea right now 
> is to change that to a table representation, which would mean fewer 
> userdata objects (possibly at the cost of performance).
A solution may be to setup an object-recycling/pooling system so that 
you can 'release' a vector and re-use it later.  This would involve 
manual object management, but could be a performance savior.  An 
enhancement to that system would be to remove items from the pool after 
some inactivity (ex:  during a certain part of time 1000 are used, but 
later only 500 are being used.. you could probably release some over 
time, but not all, so that getting new ones isn't horribly slow).