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Joe Groff 2009-08-10 16:31:54 -04:00
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@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ ARTICLE: "memory.piles" "Piles"
{ $subsection <pile> }
{ $subsection pile-alloc }
{ $subsection pile-align }
{ $subsection pile-empty } ;
{ $subsection pile-empty }
"An example of the utility of piles is in video games. For example, the game Abuse was scripted with a Lisp dialect. In order to avoid stalls from traditional GC or heap-based allocators, the Abuse Lisp VM would allocate values from a preallocated pile over the course of a frame, and release the entire pile at the end of the frame." ;
ABOUT: "memory.piles"