Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tweaking the garbage collector for realtime usage

bugfact:

The GHC documentation lists a lot of tweaks that can be done to the garbage collector.

However, Haskell spin-offs like Timber implement their own incremental garbage collector that is better suitable for real-time usage.

Did someone already fiddle with GHC's gc flags so it works better for real-time applications, like games and simulations?

Galois uses GHC's rts for things that have to have low latency. Useful tweaks include: * setting the heap size high * using the threaded runtime system * messing with the scheduler tick rate * patching the rts to avoid slow bits (like deadlock detection) I think since games and simulations aren't strictly "real time" you should be ok. -- Don