Re: Realtime, GC and ObjC (Was Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection)

2009-06-23 Thread Andy Lee
On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 12:29PM, "Andrea Gozzi" wrote: >> On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Chris Idou wrote: [...] >> One of the concerns I see with GC is "I can't use it because my app >> is realtime or near-realtime". In this case, GC or not is moot and >> the real issue is that you can'

Re: Realtime, GC and ObjC (Was Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection)

2009-06-23 Thread Andrea Gozzi
On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Chris Idou wrote: I haven't noticed GC pauses. It seems to me that the GC collects memory extremely quickly, relative to when it becomes unreachable. Given that it apparently does a lot of work in another thread,

Realtime, GC and ObjC (Was Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection)

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Chris Idou wrote: I haven't noticed GC pauses. It seems to me that the GC collects memory extremely quickly, relative to when it becomes unreachable. Given that it apparently does a lot of work in another thread, I wouldn't expect there to be much pausing in "nor