Re: Software Architecture/Design

> GC makes an easy job easier, by making hard stuff harder.  Worst.
> Compromise.  Ever.
>
> Thaddaeus Frogley

Except when 90% of your time is spent doing the "easy" job. There's plenty
of game programming tasks that don't push the boundaries of resource
allocation. It doesn't matter where that % actually is now, for any given
person or job, it's only a matter of time before it grows past the magic
threshold that makes it a "good" compromise.

In any case, the hard part doesn't really get harder: manually controlled
object lifetime is perfectly doable within a GC system by creating custom
pools. You're probably doing this already even in C++.

-- 
Javier Arevalo
http://www.iguanademos.com/Jare



_______________________________________________
Sweng-Gamedev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com