From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T23:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ever write a video game in ruby?

Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net> wrote:
> Has anyone ever written a video game in ruby, of similar technological
> complexity to e.g. a typical Super Nintendo game?

> Did it run fast enough?

Well, just be careful about the effect from the Ruby gc; we don't want a
video game that is paused from time to time, when the gc is doing its job
(marking and sweeping for... the number of micro/milli-seconds will depend
on the actual number of Ruby objects).

For example, see the threads starting at

    http://www.ruby-talk.org/04407 - Real world performance problems
    http://www.ruby-talk.org/34631 - Object/Memory Management
    etc.

I don't know when Ruby generational gc will be available.

Regards,

Bill