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		monocasa on March 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZGC – What's new in JDK 16 Core game code commonly uses custom allocators that do provide those semantics though. A bump allocator that you reset every frame is O(1) and a dozen or so cycles per allocation for example.

moonchild on March 23, 2021 [–]

Sure, yes. I was referring more to ‘general-purpose dynamic allocator’ (malloc or so). I agree custom memory management/reclamation techniques can be fine for RT; just semantics.

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