From: Matthew Bloch <mattbee@...>
Date: 2002-06-24T07:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Improving Ruby's garbage collector for interactive apps

On Friday 21 June 2002 16:27, Matthew Bloch wrote:
> I'm using Ruby for interactive applications which means
> that frequent pauses of tens of milliseconds are not good.  

PS If anyone in the UK wants to see this problem in action, go into your 
local pub and look for a Gamesnet cabinet with a game on it called 'World Cup 
Trivia'-- okay so you'll have to put in 50p to play and be fairly 
knowledgeable about football to get anywhere :-) but you can clearly see on 
*all* the animation that it jumps every 1-2s.  That jump is Ruby's garbage 
collector.  But hey, without Ruby there'd be no game there at all, and those 
cabinets vary so much in CPU speed that most of the games on them have 
animation problems, jumping movies, interminable loading delays etc.

-- 
Matthew       > http://www.soup-kitchen.net/
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