On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, James Turner <zakal...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2011, at 12:46, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > >> Nasal has a garbage collection problem. One solution to it is - we avoid >> Nasal code wherever possible and try to hard-code everything. But Nasal >> crops up on a lot of places - complex aircraft such as the Concorde come >> to my mind, interactive AI models, lots of really nifty and useful >> applications... - so instead of fixing things in a lot of places, one >> could also think about it the other way and fix just one thing, i.e. the >> garbage collection such that it doesn't hit a single frame. > > Indeed, and I've looked into this - it's a tough problem, but not an > impossible one - and well contained - the current Nasal GC is a single source > file. As you point out, the amount of scripted code is going to continue > increase irrespective of local weather, so we need to bite the bullet sooner > or later and fix the GC to be incremental. > > Fortunately, garbage collection is pretty well researched - the trick is > finding an incremental algorithm that's 'simple enough'
Note, Anders has created a patch that puts GC on its own thread a while ago. Admittedly that's not incremental, but still nice. -- Csaba/Jester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
