Player is pretty simple, at least in Windows. I haven't seen many threads if any. Input is based on Windows messages, I/O uses non-blocking, etc.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Garbage Collection question Hey I read it, it didn't answer *this* question :) I know it's started when you allocated something, I just didn't know whether the actual collection would pause the vm or if it simply went and cleaned up on another thread. I know the VM's single threaded, I just figured the player would have all sort of threads for useful stuff like rendering, watching keyboard / mouse, mark-and-sweep for the GC, etc. But it looks like I needn't be worried, which is good news to me :) Cheers, -Josh On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Dude, read my blog :) There is no background/threading in the player per-se. GC is kicked off when try to allocate memory from the player's heap and the player is trying to avoid asking the OS for more memory. Totally synchronous, happens during the "new", and can delay the time until the next render. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] Garbage Collection question Guys, just a quick question for anybody skilled up on the voodoo - I'm not 100% sure of a way to test this yet so I thought I'd ask: I assume the Garabage Collector is a background thread so far as mark-and-sweep etc, but does it do actual collecting while AVM2 is processing bytecode? I'm just worried about bugs creeping into some funky-stuff I'm doing using the Dictionary class :) -Josh -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
